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From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Sep 2019 18:53:25 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/12] scripts: Coccinelle script for namespace dependencies.
To:     Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
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On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 12:07 AM Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> wrote:
>
> A script that uses the '<module>.ns_deps' files generated by modpost to
> automatically add the required symbol namespace dependencies to each
> module.
>
> Usage:
> 1) Move some symbols to a namespace with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() or define
>    DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE
> 2) Run 'make' (or 'make modules') and get warnings about modules not
>    importing that namespace.
> 3) Run 'make nsdeps' to automatically add required import statements
>    to said modules.
>
> This makes it easer for subsystem maintainers to introduce and maintain
> symbol namespaces into their codebase.
>
> Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
> Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>


Without any correct dependency,
this does not work.

$ make clean; make nsdeps
cat: modules.order: No such file or directory
cat: ./modules.order: No such file or directory


I do not see any point in the Makefile changes.


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada