Currently, $(objtree)/modules.order is touched in two places. In the 'prepare0' rule, scripts/Makefile.build creates an empty modules.order while processing 'obj=.' In the 'modules' rule, the top-level Makefile overwrites it with the correct list of modules. While this might be a good side-effect that modules.order is made empty every time (probably this is not intended functionality), I personally do not like this behavior. Create modules.order only when it is sensible to do so. This avoids creating the following pointless files: scripts/basic/modules.order scripts/dtc/modules.order scripts/gcc-plugins/modules.order scripts/genksyms/modules.order scripts/mod/modules.order scripts/modules.order scripts/selinux/genheaders/modules.order scripts/selinux/mdp/modules.order scripts/selinux/modules.order Going forward, $(objtree)/modules.order lists the modules that was built in the last successful build. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v3: None Changes in v2: - inverted the logic "preparing" -> need-modorder Makefile | 4 ++-- scripts/Makefile.build | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index e43285786102..b74a6e9cefc8 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ $(sort $(vmlinux-deps)): $(vmlinux-dirs) ; PHONY += $(vmlinux-dirs) $(vmlinux-dirs): prepare - $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$@ need-builtin=1 + $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$@ need-builtin=1 need-modorder=1 filechk_kernel.release = \ echo "$(KERNELVERSION)$$($(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/setlocalversion $(srctree))" @@ -1616,7 +1616,7 @@ $(objtree)/Module.symvers: module-dirs := $(addprefix _module_,$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)) PHONY += $(module-dirs) modules $(module-dirs): prepare $(objtree)/Module.symvers - $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(patsubst _module_%,%,$@) + $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(patsubst _module_%,%,$@) need-modorder=1 modules: $(module-dirs) @$(kecho) ' Building modules, stage 2.'; diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build index 5829ccbc7dd0..631bb89524de 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.build +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ ifneq ($(strip $(real-obj-y) $(need-builtin)),) builtin-target := $(obj)/built-in.a endif -ifdef CONFIG_MODULES +ifeq ($(CONFIG_MODULES)$(need-modorder),y1) modorder-target := $(obj)/modules.order endif -- 2.17.1
