The genksyms source was integrated into the kernel tree in 2003.
I do not expect anybody still using the external /sbin/genksyms.
Kbuild does not need to provide the ability to override GENKSYMS.
Let's remove the GENKSYMS variable, and use the hardcoded path.
Since it occurred in the pre-git era, I attached the commit message
in case somebody is interested in the historical background.
| Author: Kai Germaschewski <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Date: Wed Feb 19 04:17:28 2003 -0600
|
| kbuild: [PATCH] put genksyms in scripts dir
|
| This puts genksyms into scripts/genksyms/.
|
| genksyms used to be maintained externally, though the only possible user
| was the kernel build. Moving it into the kernel sources makes it easier to
| keep it uptodate, like for example updating it to generate linker scripts
| directly instead of postprocessing the generated header file fragments
| with sed, as we do currently.
|
| Also, genksyms does not handle __typeof__, which needs to be fixed since
| some of the exported symbol in the kernel are defined using __typeof__.
|
| (Rusty Russell/me)
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 3 +--
scripts/Makefile.build | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index def7c79..e19a3e3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -390,7 +390,6 @@ OBJDUMP = $(CROSS_COMPILE)objdump
LEX = flex
YACC = bison
AWK = awk
-GENKSYMS = scripts/genksyms/genksyms
INSTALLKERNEL := installkernel
DEPMOD = /sbin/depmod
PERL = perl
@@ -443,7 +442,7 @@ GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS :=
export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC
export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS
-export MAKE LEX YACC AWK GENKSYMS INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 UTS_MACHINE
+export MAKE LEX YACC AWK INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 UTS_MACHINE
export HOSTCXX KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS KBUILD_LDFLAGS
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 89debbe..f013182 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ $(obj)/%.i: $(src)/%.c FORCE
# These mirror gensymtypes_S and co below, keep them in synch.
cmd_gensymtypes_c = \
$(CPP) -D__GENKSYMS__ $(c_flags) $< | \
- $(GENKSYMS) $(if $(1), -T $(2)) \
+ scripts/genksyms/genksyms $(if $(1), -T $(2)) \
$(patsubst y,-R,$(CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS)) \
$(if $(KBUILD_PRESERVE),-p) \
-r $(firstword $(wildcard $(2:.symtypes=.symref) /dev/null))
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ cmd_gensymtypes_S = \
grep "\<___EXPORT_SYMBOL\>" | \
sed 's/.*___EXPORT_SYMBOL[[:space:]]*\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)[[:space:]]*,.*/EXPORT_SYMBOL(\1);/' ; } | \
$(CPP) -D__GENKSYMS__ $(c_flags) -xc - | \
- $(GENKSYMS) $(if $(1), -T $(2)) \
+ scripts/genksyms/genksyms $(if $(1), -T $(2)) \
$(patsubst y,-R,$(CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS)) \
$(if $(KBUILD_PRESERVE),-p) \
-r $(firstword $(wildcard $(2:.symtypes=.symref) /dev/null))
--
2.7.4
