seems subject is incomplete in v2, v3 posted: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1060505/ Thanks! - Wladislav On 10.04.2019 11:23, Wiebe, Wladislav (Nokia - DE/Ulm) 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. > > As this patch changes the default behaving from warning to error, > users can consider to fix it for external module builds by: > - providing module symbol table via KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS for > modules which are dependent > - OR getting old behaving back by passing KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN to the build > > 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))) > >
