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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-25 12:06:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-25 12:06:46 -0700 |
| commit | f7ce1f5e083fc099346019fb1f8d56a5452703ed (patch) | |
| tree | 9d36e70d9253d87566256e779babacf697ee2774 /Documentation | |
| parent | dd0e101d630b0d7ed6c9e1ccf7af7fc91818330e (diff) | |
| parent | 0254da07d9d51044140a904c47affaeeb8b74ae8 (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
kbuild: fix depmod comment
kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
kbuild: support loading extra symbols in modpost
Add option to enable -Wframe-larger-than= on gcc 4.4
kbuild: add kconfig symbols to tags output
kbuild: fix some minor typoes
kbuild: error out on missing MODULE_LICENSE
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt index 1d247d59ad56..1821c077b435 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ Module.symvers contains a list of all exported symbols from a kernel build. Sometimes, an external module uses exported symbols from another external module. Kbuild needs to have full knowledge on all symbols to avoid spitting out warnings about undefined symbols. - Two solutions exist to let kbuild know all symbols of more than + Three solutions exist to let kbuild know all symbols of more than one external module. The method with a top-level kbuild file is recommended but may be impractical in certain situations. @@ -523,6 +523,13 @@ Module.symvers contains a list of all exported symbols from a kernel build. containing the sum of all symbols defined and not part of the kernel. + Use make variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS in the Makefile + If it is impractical to copy Module.symvers from another + module, you can assign a space separated list of files to + KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS in your Makfile. These files will be + loaded by modpost during the initialisation of its symbol + tables. + === 8. Tips & Tricks --- 8.1 Testing for CONFIG_FOO_BAR |