linux-kernel - [PATCH] fixdep: remove unneeded code and comments about *.ver files

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Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:58:59 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fixdep: remove unneeded code and comments about *.ver files

This is probably stale code. In old days (~ Linux 2.5.59), Kbuild made
genksyms generate include/linux/modules/*.ver files.

The currenct Kbuild does not generate *.ver files at all.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

 scripts/basic/fixdep.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
index 9ba47b0a47b9..ad2041817985 100644
--- a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
+++ b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
@@ -77,11 +77,6 @@
  * dependencies on include/config/my/option.h for every
  * CONFIG_MY_OPTION encountered in any of the prerequisites.
  *
- * It will also filter out all the dependencies on *.ver. We need
- * to make sure that the generated version checksum are globally up
- * to date before even starting the recursive build, so it's too late
- * at this point anyway.
- *
  * We don't even try to really parse the header files, but
  * merely grep, i.e. if CONFIG_FOO is mentioned in a comment, it will
  * be picked up as well. It's not a problem with respect to
@@ -299,8 +294,7 @@ static void *read_file(const char *filename)
 static int is_ignored_file(const char *s, int len)
 {
 	return str_ends_with(s, len, "include/generated/autoconf.h") ||
-	       str_ends_with(s, len, "include/generated/autoksyms.h") ||
-	       str_ends_with(s, len, ".ver");
+	       str_ends_with(s, len, "include/generated/autoksyms.h");
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.17.1