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Author SHA1 Message Date
Kirill Korotaev
c53ddacdc0 kbuild: fail kernel compilation in case of unresolved module symbols
At stage 2 modpost utility is used to check modules.  In case of unresolved
symbols modpost only prints warning.

IMHO it is a good idea to fail compilation process in case of unresolved
symbols (at least in modules coming with kernel), since usually such errors
are left unnoticed, but kernel modules are broken.

- new option '-w' is added to modpost:
  if option is specified, modpost only warns about unresolved symbols

- modpost is called with '-w' for external modules in Makefile.modpost

Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-25 09:14:30 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
93659af1ce kbuild: add missing return statement in modpost.c:secref_whitelist()
Noticed by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-25 09:01:49 +02:00
Magnus Damm
9e157a5aa8 kbuild: ignore references from ".pci_fixup" to ".init.text"
The modpost code is extended to ignore references
from ".pci_fixup" to ".init.text".

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
2006-09-25 09:01:49 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
1534c3820c [S390] zcrypt adjunct processor bus.
Add a bus for the adjunct processor interface. Up to 64 devices can
be connect to the ap bus interface, each device with 16 domains. That
makes 1024 message queues. The interface is asynchronous, the answer
to a message sent to a queue needs to be received at some later point
in time. Unfortunately the interface does not provide interrupts when
a message reply is pending. So the ap bus needs to implement some
fancy polling, each active queue is polled once per 1/HZ second or
continuously if an idle cpus exsists and the poll thread is activ
(see poll_thread parameter).

The ap bus uses the sysfs path /sys/bus/ap and has two bus attributes,
ap_domain and config_time. The ap_domain selects one of the 16 domains
to be used for this system. This limits the maximum number of ap devices
to 64. The config_time attribute contains the number of seconds between
two ap bus scans to find new devices.

The ap bus uses the modalias entries of the form "ap:tN" to autoload
the ap driver for hardware type N. Currently known types are:
3 - PCICC, 4 - PCICA, 5 - PCIXCC, 6 - CEX2A and 7 - CEX2C.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <rwuerthn@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:58:25 +02:00
Hans de Goede
e0e9263271 [PATCH] PATCH: 1 line 2.6.18 bugfix: modpost-64bit-fix.patch
There is a small but annoying bug in scripts/mod/file2alias.c which causes
it to generate invalid aliases for input devices on 64 bit archs. This causes
joydev.ko to not be automaticly loaded when inserting a joystick, resulting in
a non working joystick (for the average user).

In scripts/mod/file2alias.c is the following code for generating the input
aliases:
static void do_input(char *alias,
                     kernel_ulong_t *arr, unsigned int min, unsigned int max)
{
        unsigned int i;

        for (i = min; i < max; i++)
                if (arr[i / BITS_PER_LONG] & (1 << (i%BITS_PER_LONG)))
                        sprintf(alias + strlen(alias), "%X,*", i);
}

On 32 bits systems, this correctly generates "0,*" for the first alias, "8,*"
for the second etc.

However on 64 bits it generates: "0,*20,*" resp "8,*28,*" Notice how it adds 20
+ first entry (hex) ! to the list of hex codes, which is 32 more then the first
entry, thus is because the bit test above wraps at 32 bits instead of 64.

scripts/mod/file2alias.c, line 379 reads:
                if (arr[i / BITS_PER_LONG] & (1 << (i%BITS_PER_LONG)))
That should be:
                if (arr[i / BITS_PER_LONG] & (1L << (i%BITS_PER_LONG)))

Notice the added 'L' after the 1, otherwise that is an 32 bit int instead of a
64 bit long, and when that int gets shifted >= 32 times, appearantly the number
by which to shift is wrapped at 5 bits ( % 32) causing it to test a bit 32 bits
too low.

The patch below makes the nescesarry 1 char change :)

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-15 12:53:09 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
fb33d81613 kbuild: improve error from file2alias
The original errormessage was just plain unreadable.

Sample error message after this update (not for real - I provoked it):

FATAL: drivers/net/s2io: sizeof(struct pci_device_id)=33 is not a modulo of the
size of section __mod_pci_device_table=160.
Fix definition of struct pci_device_id in mod_devicetable.h

Before a warning was generated - this is now a fatal error.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-08-01 11:32:46 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
c96fca2137 kbuild: warn when a moduled uses a symbol marked UNUSED
We now have infrastructure in place to mark an EXPORTed symbol
as unused. So the natural next step is to warn during buildtime when
a module uses a symbol marked UNUSED.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-07-01 11:44:23 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
534b89a9f6 kbuild: fix segv in modpost
Parsing an old Modules.symvers file casued modpost to SEGV.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-07-01 10:10:19 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
6803dc0ea8 kbuild: replace abort() with exit(1)
We have had no use of the coredump file for a long time.
So just exit(1) and avoid coredumping.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-24 23:46:54 +02:00
Al Viro
468d949401 kbuild: kill some false positives from modpost
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-24 23:14:05 +02:00
Laurent Riffard
9ac545b0f7 kbuild: fix module.symvers parsing in modpost
read_dump didn't split lines between module name and export type.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-16 23:45:45 +02:00
Andrew Morton
6449bd621b kbuild: modpost build fix
scripts/mod/modpost.c: In function `check_license':
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1094: parse error before `const'
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1095: `basename' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1095: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1095: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-10 07:58:14 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
b817f6feff kbuild: check license compatibility when building modules
Modules that uses GPL symbols can no longer be build with kbuild,
the build will fail during the modpost step.
When a GPL-incompatible module uses a EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE symbol
then warn during modpost so author are actually notified.

The actual license compatibility check is shared with the kernel
to make sure it is in sync.

Patch originally from: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> and
Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-09 21:53:55 +02:00
Ram Pai
bd5cbcedf4 kbuild: export-type enhancement to modpost.c
This patch provides the ability to identify the export-type of each
exported symbols in Module.symvers.

NOTE: It updates the Module.symvers file with the additional
information as shown below.

0x0f8b92af      platform_device_add_resources   vmlinux EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
0xcf7efb2a      ethtool_op_set_tx_csum          vmlinux EXPORT_SYMBOL

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avantika Mathur <mathur@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-09 20:33:10 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
909252d279 kbuild: fix false section mismatch with ARCH=um build
Ignoring references to .init.text, .exit.text from the .plt section brought
the false positives down to two warnings for a defconfig build of ARCH=um
on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-08 20:37:30 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
35899c5751 kbuild: ignore smp_locks section warnings from init/exit code
Add ".smp_locks" section to whitelist as being safe from
init and exit sections.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-08 20:20:23 +02:00
Atsushi Nemoto
eae07ac607 [PATCH] kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel
Here is an updated r_info layout fix.  Please apply "check SHT_REL
sections" patch before this.

64bit mips has different r_info layout.  This patch fixes modpost
segfault for 64bit little endian mips kernel.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:21 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
2c1a51f39d [PATCH] kbuild: check SHT_REL sections
I found that modpost can not detect section mismatch on mips and i386.  On
mips64, the modpost (with r_info layout fix) can detect it.  The current
modpst only checks SHT_RELA section but I suppose SHT_REL section should be
checked also.  This patch does not contain r_info layout fix.  I'll post an
updated r_info layout fix on next mail.

Check SHT_REL sections as like as SHT_RELA sections to detect section
mismatch.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
601e7f024e Revert "kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel"
This reverts commit c8d8b837eb, which
caused problems for the x86 build. Quoth Sam:

  "It was discussed on mips list but apparently the fix was bogus.  I
   will not have time to look into it so mips can carry this local fix
   until we get a proper fix in mainline."

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-08 13:38:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bed7a56033 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
  kbuild: Do not overwrite makefile as anohter user
  kbuild: drivers/video/logo/ - fix ident glitch
  kbuild: fix gen_initramfs_list.sh
  kbuild modpost - relax driver data name
  kbuild: removing .tmp_versions considered harmful
  kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel
2006-05-08 09:10:44 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
72ee59b579 kbuild modpost - relax driver data name
Relax driver data name from *_driver to *driver.
This fixes the 26 section mismatch warnings in drivers/ide/pci.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-30 23:52:31 +02:00
Atsushi Nemoto
c8d8b837eb kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel
64bit mips has different r_info layout.  This patch fixes modpost
segfault for 64bit little endian mips kernel.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-30 23:36:48 +02:00
Dmitry Torokhov
7b7e394185 Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-04-29 01:11:23 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov
ddc5d34145 Input: move input_device_id to mod_devicetable.h
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-04-26 00:14:19 -04:00
Sam Ravnborg
5ecdd0f67c kbuild: fix false section mismatch warnings
Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com> pointed out a
number of false positives where we referenced variables
from a _driver variable.
Fix it by check for that pattern and ignore it.

Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> pointed out a similar
set of warnings for a number of scsi drivers.
In scsi world they misname their variables *_template or
*_sht so add these to list of variables that may have references
to .init.text with no warning.

Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> also pointed out a scsi driver
with many references to .exit.text from .rodata. This is compiler
generated references and we already ignore these for .init.text, so
ignore them for .exit.text also.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-15 00:35:22 +02:00
Eric Sesterhenn
eaaae38c1a kbuild: fix NULL dereference in scripts/mod/modpost.c
before is NULL in this case, concluding from the surrounding code
it seems that after is the right one to use.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-11 13:37:07 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
2e1ca21d46 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits)
  kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files
  kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg
  kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h
  Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options
  kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile
  kbuild: clean-up genksyms
  kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c
  kbuild: fix genksyms build error
  kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files
  kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE
  kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
  kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior
  kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
  kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing
  kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
  kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
  kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
  kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
  kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description
  kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy
  ...

Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up
2006-03-25 08:48:48 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
7670f023aa [PATCH] kbuild: fix buffer overflow in modpost
Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> reported that modpost would stop with SIGABRT if
used with long filepaths.
The error looked like:
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST
> *** glibc detected *** scripts/mod/modpost: realloc(): invalid next size:
+0x0809f588 ***
> [...]

Fix this by allocating at least the required memory + SZ bytes each time.
Before we sometimes ended up allocating too little memory resuting in the
glibc detected bug above.  Based on patch originally submitted by: Jiri
Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17 07:51:25 -08:00
Luke Yang
f7b05e64bd kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
The scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c uses hardcoded "__crc_" prefix for
crc symbols in kernel and modules. The prefix should be replaced by
"MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX##__crc_" otherwise there will be warnings when
MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX is not NULL.

I am sorry my last patch for this issue is actually wrong. I revert
it in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-08 18:33:16 +01:00
Bastian Blank
de1d9c033f [PATCH] s390: fix match in ccw modalias
Fix matching of devmodel in modaliases.  It breaks automatic loading of any
dasd module.

Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06 18:40:45 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
7b75b13cda kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
Warning now looks like this:
WARNING: vmlinux: 'strcpy' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux

Which gives much better hint how to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 13:48:58 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
43c74d1795 kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
When searching for symbols the only check performed was if
offset equals st_value. Adding an additional check to see if st_name
points t a valid name made us sort out a few more false positives and
let us report more correct names in warnings.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 12:02:46 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
e835a39c1c kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
Parameters to strstr() was reversed.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 11:34:15 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
9209aed072 kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
Building an allmodconfig kernel for ppc64 revealed a number of false
positives - originally reported by Andrew Morton.
This patch removes most if not all false positives for ppc64:

Section .opd
The .opd section contains function descriptors at least for ppc64.
So ignore it for .init.text (was ignored for .exit.text).
See description of function descriptors here:
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi-1.7.html

Section .toc1
ppc64 places some static variables in .toc1 - ignore the.

Section __bug_tabe
BUG() and friends uses __bug_table. Ignore warnings from that section.

Module parameters are placed in .data.rel for ppc64, for adjust pattern to
match on section named .data*

Tested with gcc: 3.4.0 and binutils 2.15.90.0.3

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 00:16:26 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
62070fa42c kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-03 16:46:04 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
4c8fbca583 kbuild: whitelist false section mismatch warnings
In several cases the section mismatch check triggered false warnings.
Following patch introduce a whitelist to 'false positives' are not warned of.
Two types of patterns are recognised:
1) Typical case when a module parameter is _initdata
2) When a function pointer is assigned to a driver structure

In both patterns we rely on the actual name of the variable assigned

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-26 22:18:11 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
382168f479 kbuild: Add copyright to modpost.c
It seems popular to protect your work with copyright, so I decided to do
so for modpost which I patch a great deal atm.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-26 20:11:17 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
6e10133fa4 kbuild: do not warn when unwind sections references .init/.exit sections
Andrew Morton reported a number of false positives for ia64 - like these:
WARNING: drivers/acpi/button.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .IA_64.unwind.init.text after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/acpi/button.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .IA_64.unwind.exit.text after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/acpi/processor.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .IA_64.unwind after '' (at offset 0x1e8)

They are all false positives - or at least the .c code looks OK.
It is not known why sometimes a section name is appended and sometimes not.

Fix is to accept references from all sections that includes "unwind." in the name.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-22 21:24:50 +01:00
akpm@osdl.org
fededcd2af kbuild: fix modpost compile with older gcc
The kernel now requires that CC be 3.1.0 or higher.  But we shouldn't place
that requirement upon HOSTCC unless we really need to.  Fixes my ia64 problem.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-22 20:23:51 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
93684d3b80 kbuild: include symbol names in section mismatch warnings
Try to look up the symbol that is referenced. Include the symbol
name in the warning message.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 11:53:35 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
8ea80ca4f5 kbuild: fix segfault in modpost
Do not try to look up section name until we know it is not a special
section. Otherwise we will address outside legal space and segfault.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:56:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
41370d3b5e kbuild: do not segfault in modpost if MODVERDIR is not defined
A combination of calling modpost with option -a and MODVERDIR undefined
caused segmentation fault. So provide a default value and accept the
error messages it generates instead.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:22 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
b39927cf4c kbuild: check for section mismatch during modpost stage
Section mismatch is identified as references to .init*
sections from non .init sections. And likewise references
to .exit.* sections outside .exit sections.

.init.* sections are discarded after a module is initialized
and references to .init.* sections are oops candidates.
.exit.* sections are discarded when a module is built-in and
thus references to .exit are also oops candidates.

The checks were possible to do using 'make buildcheck' which
called the two perl scripts: reference_discarded.pl and
reference_init.pl. This patch just moves the same functionality
inside modpost and the scripts are then obsoleted.
They will though be kept for a while so users can do double
checks - but note that some .o files are skipped by the perl scripts
so result is not 1:1.
All credit for the concept goes to Keith Owens who implemented
the original perl scrips - this patch just moves it to modpost.

Compared to the perl script the implmentation in modpost will be run
for each kernel build - thus catching the error much sooner, but
the downside is that the individual .o file are not always identified.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:20 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
8e70c45887 kbuild: warn about duplicate exported symbols
In modpost introduce a check for symbols exported twice.
This check caught only one victim (inet_bind_bucket_create) for
which a patch is already sent to netdev.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
040fcc819a kbuild: improved modversioning support for external modules
With following patch a second option is enabled to obtain
symbol information from a second external module when a
external module is build.
The recommended approach is to use a common kbuild file but
that may be impractical in certain cases.
With this patch one can copy over a Module.symvers from one
external module to make symbols (and symbol versions) available
for another external module.

Updated documentation in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
5c3ead8c72 kbuild: apply CodingStyle to modpost.c
Just some light CodingStyle updates - no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:17 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
cb80514d9c kbuild: use warn()/fatal() consistent in modpost
modpost.c provides warn() and fatal() - so use them all over the place.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:17 +01:00
Brian Gerst
cc6fa432f5 modpost/file2alias: Fix typo
SND_MAX should be FF_MAX

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-01-08 18:44:01 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
db9edfd7e3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
Trivial manual merge fixup for usb_find_interface clashes.
2006-01-04 18:44:12 -08:00
Rusty Russell
1d8f430c15 [PATCH] Input: add modalias support
Here's the patch for modalias support for input classes.  It uses
comma-separated numbers, and doesn't describe all the potential keys (no
module currently cares, and that would make the strings huge).  The
changes to input.h are to move the definitions needed by file2alias
outside __KERNEL__.  I chose not to move those definitions to
mod_devicetable.h, because there are so many that it might break compile
of something else in the kernel.

The rest is fairly straightforward.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:09 -08:00