On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> The comment mentions it creates autoksyms.h in case it is missing,
> but the actual code touches it when it does exists.
>
> The build system creates it anyway because <linux/export.h> and
> <asm-generic/export.h> need it.
>
> The code would not have worked as intended, and people have not
> noticed it. This is a proof that we can simply remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Remove the code instead of fixing it
>
> scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh b/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh
> index a162258..e0dd0d5 100755
> --- a/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh
> +++ b/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh
> @@ -48,9 +48,6 @@ case "${KCONFIG_CONFIG}" in
> . "./${KCONFIG_CONFIG}"
> esac
>
> -# In case it doesn't exist yet...
> -if [ -e "$cur_ksyms_file" ]; then touch "$cur_ksyms_file"; fi
> -
> # Generate a new ksym list file with symbols needed by the current
> # set of modules.
> cat > "$new_ksyms_file" << EOT
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>
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