linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] modpost: use MODULE_INFO() for __module

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Date:   Mon,  9 Sep 2019 20:34:22 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...el.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] modpost: use MODULE_INFO() for __module_depends

This makes *.mod.c much more readable. I confirmed depmod still
produced the same modules.dep file.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
---

 scripts/mod/modpost.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index f277e116e0eb..480c7b60153b 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -2250,10 +2250,7 @@ static void add_depends(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
 			s->module->seen = is_vmlinux(s->module->name);
 
 	buf_printf(b, "\n");
-	buf_printf(b, "static const char __module_depends[]\n");
-	buf_printf(b, "__used\n");
-	buf_printf(b, "__attribute__((section(\".modinfo\"))) =\n");
-	buf_printf(b, "\"depends=");
+	buf_printf(b, "MODULE_INFO(depends, \"");
 	for (s = mod->unres; s; s = s->next) {
 		const char *p;
 		if (!s->module)
@@ -2271,7 +2268,7 @@ static void add_depends(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
 		buf_printf(b, "%s%s", first ? "" : ",", p);
 		first = 0;
 	}
-	buf_printf(b, "\";\n");
+	buf_printf(b, "\");\n");
 }
 
 static void add_srcversion(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
-- 
2.17.1