On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 01:41:25PM +0000, Nick Alcock wrote: > tristate.conf was dropped because it is not needed to build a > modules.builtin (although dropping it introduces a few false positives > into modules.builtin support), and doing so avoids one round of > recursion through the build tree to build it. But kallmodsyms support > requires building a mapping from object file name to built-in module > name for all builtin modules: this seems to me impossible to accomplish > without parsing all makefiles under the influence of tristate.conf, > since the makefiles are the only place this mapping is recorded. > > So bring it back for this purpose. (Thanks to the refactoring in > the 5.16 timeframe, this is basically a reimplementation of commit > 8b41fc4454e36fbfdbb23f940d023d4dece2de29 rather than a simple > reversion.) > > Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Victor Erminpour <victor.erminpour@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@xxxxxxxxxx> I don't see the need, see the review of next patch. Luis
