The patch titled
kbuild: prevent modpost from looking for a .cmd file for a static library linked into a module
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kbuild-prevent-modpost-from-looking-for-a-cmd-file-for-a-static-library-linked-into-a-module.patch
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Subject: kbuild: prevent modpost from looking for a .cmd file for a static library linked into a module
From: "Ashutosh Naik" <ashutosh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
This patch prevents modpost to look for a .cmd file when a module is
linked with a static library
Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/mod/sumversion.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN scripts/mod/sumversion.c~kbuild-prevent-modpost-from-looking-for-a-cmd-file-for-a-static-library-linked-into-a-module scripts/mod/sumversion.c
--- a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c~kbuild-prevent-modpost-from-looking-for-a-cmd-file-for-a-static-library-linked-into-a-module
+++ a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c
@@ -290,6 +290,15 @@ static int parse_file(const char *fname,
release_file(file, len);
return 1;
}
+/* Check whether the file is a static library or not */
+static int is_static_library(const char *objfile)
+{
+ int len = strlen(objfile);
+ if((objfile[len -2]=='.') && (objfile[len - 1]=='a'))
+ return 1;
+ else
+ return 0;
+}
/* We have dir/file.o. Open dir/.file.o.cmd, look for deps_ line to
* figure out source file. */
@@ -420,7 +429,7 @@ void get_src_version(const char *modname
while ((fname = strsep(&sources, " ")) != NULL) {
if (!*fname)
continue;
- if (!parse_source_files(fname, &md))
+ if (!(is_static_library(fname)) && !parse_source_files(fname, &md))
goto release;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ashutosh@xxxxxxxxxxx are
kbuild-prevent-modpost-from-looking-for-a-cmd-file-for-a-static-library-linked-into-a-module.patch
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