Re: [PATCH 0/4] More nsdeps improvements

[Jessica Yu]

+++ Masahiro Yamada [29/10/19 21:38 +0900]:
> This series improves nsdeps more by addressing the root problem.
>
> Based on linux-next.
>
> This series does NOT apply to the Linus tree because
> I updates modpost from my Kbuild tree.
>
> I can pick up this series to kbuild tree if there is no objection.
> If it goes to the module tree, we need to discuss how to deal with
> the conflicts.

Please feel free to take these through the kbuild tree. Thanks!

> The modpost is actively touched these days
> from both kbuild and module trees.
>
>
>
> Masahiro Yamada (4):
>  modpost: do not invoke extra modpost for nsdeps
>  modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file
>  scripts/nsdeps: support nsdeps for external module builds
>  mospost: remove unneeded local variable in contains_namespace()
>
> .gitignore                                   |  2 +-
> Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst |  3 ++
> Documentation/dontdiff                       |  1 +
> Makefile                                     | 10 ++--
> scripts/Makefile.modpost                     |  8 ++-
> scripts/mod/modpost.c                        | 55 ++++++++------------
> scripts/mod/modpost.h                        |  4 +-
> scripts/nsdeps                               | 29 ++++++-----
> 8 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.1