Re: [PATCH v9 2/8] kbuild: add modules_thick.builtin

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 01:41:26PM +0000, Nick Alcock wrote:
> I am not wedded to the approach used to construct this file, but I don't
> see any other way to do it despite spending a week or so trying to tie
> it into Kbuild without using a separate Makefile.modbuiltin: unlike the
> names of builtin modules (which are also recorded in the source files
> themseves via MODULE_*() macros) the mapping from object file name to
> built-in module name is not recorded anywhere but in the makefiles
> themselves, so we have to at least reparse them with something to
> indicate the builtin-ness of each module (i.e., tristate.conf) if we are
> to figure out which modules are built-in and which are not.

Please try this patch, unless I am not understanding perhaps we may be
able to replace the first two patches with this one? It also seems
to capture a bit more data than the modules_thick.builtin file.