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fixdep: remove unneeded code and comments about *.ver files

Message ID 20200218095859.9725-1-masahiroy@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series fixdep: remove unneeded code and comments about *.ver files | expand

Commit Message

Masahiro Yamada Feb. 18, 2020, 9:58 a.m. UTC
This is probably stale code. In old days (~ Linux 2.5.59), Kbuild made
genksyms generate include/linux/modules/*.ver files.

The currenct Kbuild does not generate *.ver files at all.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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 scripts/basic/fixdep.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

Comments

Masahiro Yamada Feb. 27, 2020, 4:44 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 6:59 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> This is probably stale code. In old days (~ Linux 2.5.59), Kbuild made
> genksyms generate include/linux/modules/*.ver files.
>
> The currenct Kbuild does not generate *.ver files at all.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild.

>
>  scripts/basic/fixdep.c | 8 +-------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
> index 9ba47b0a47b9..ad2041817985 100644
> --- a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
> +++ b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
> @@ -77,11 +77,6 @@
>   * dependencies on include/config/my/option.h for every
>   * CONFIG_MY_OPTION encountered in any of the prerequisites.
>   *
> - * It will also filter out all the dependencies on *.ver. We need
> - * to make sure that the generated version checksum are globally up
> - * to date before even starting the recursive build, so it's too late
> - * at this point anyway.
> - *
>   * We don't even try to really parse the header files, but
>   * merely grep, i.e. if CONFIG_FOO is mentioned in a comment, it will
>   * be picked up as well. It's not a problem with respect to
> @@ -299,8 +294,7 @@ static void *read_file(const char *filename)
>  static int is_ignored_file(const char *s, int len)
>  {
>         return str_ends_with(s, len, "include/generated/autoconf.h") ||
> -              str_ends_with(s, len, "include/generated/autoksyms.h") ||
> -              str_ends_with(s, len, ".ver");
> +              str_ends_with(s, len, "include/generated/autoksyms.h");
>  }
>
>  /*
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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diff --git a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
index 9ba47b0a47b9..ad2041817985 100644
--- a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
+++ b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
@@ -77,11 +77,6 @@ 
  * dependencies on include/config/my/option.h for every
  * CONFIG_MY_OPTION encountered in any of the prerequisites.
  *
- * It will also filter out all the dependencies on *.ver. We need
- * to make sure that the generated version checksum are globally up
- * to date before even starting the recursive build, so it's too late
- * at this point anyway.
- *
  * We don't even try to really parse the header files, but
  * merely grep, i.e. if CONFIG_FOO is mentioned in a comment, it will
  * be picked up as well. It's not a problem with respect to
@@ -299,8 +294,7 @@  static void *read_file(const char *filename)
 static int is_ignored_file(const char *s, int len)
 {
 	return str_ends_with(s, len, "include/generated/autoconf.h") ||
-	       str_ends_with(s, len, "include/generated/autoksyms.h") ||
-	       str_ends_with(s, len, ".ver");
+	       str_ends_with(s, len, "include/generated/autoksyms.h");
 }
 
 /*