Hi!
On 07.04.2019 11:04, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> (+CC Jonas Gorski)
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 6:58 PM Wiebe, Wladislav (Nokia - DE/Ulm)
> <wladislav.wiebe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Commit ea837f1c0503 ("kbuild: make modpost processing configurable")
>> was intended to give KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN flexibility to be configurable.
>> Right now KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN gets just ignored when KBUILD_EXTMOD is
>> set which happens per default when building modules out of the tree.
>>
>> This change gives the opportunity to define module build behaving also
>> in case of out of tree builds and default will become exit on error.
>> Errors which can be detected by the build should be trapped out of the box
>> there, unless somebody wants to notice broken stuff later at runtime.
>
> If an external module refers to a symbol
> provided by another external module,
> this patch will turn the warning into the error by default,
> which is probably a bad idea.
Indeed, exactly this should happen. You should fix your external module
dependencies by providing their symbols. Please use e.g.
KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS instead of converting errors to warning and hoping
that things will work. Or how do you want to make sure module A still
delivers all symbols needed by module B after an update/changes?
Manually comparing the logs after an update or waiting until it turns
out broken during run-time? I wouldn't say this is a good idea :-)
> I suggested a desired change in the following.
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9980691/
>
> I am poking Jonas Gorski
> if he plans to send v2.
I wouldn't vote for v2 based on explanation above.
- Wladislav
>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Wladislav Wiebe <wladislav.wiebe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> scripts/Makefile.modpost | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
>> index 6b7f354f189a..fec6ec2ffa47 100644
>> --- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
>> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
>> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ modpost = scripts/mod/modpost \
>> $(if $(KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS), $(patsubst %, -e %,$(KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS))) \
>> $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-o $(modulesymfile)) \
>> $(if $(CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY),,-E) \
>> - $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)$(KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN),-w)
>> + $(if $(KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN),-w)
>>
>> MODPOST_OPT=$(subst -i,-n,$(filter -i,$(MAKEFLAGS)))
>>
>> --
>> 2.19.2
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