linux-kernel - [PATCH] parisc: fix the exit status of arch/parisc/nm

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Date:   Fri, 27 May 2022 23:39:31 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Subject: [PATCH] parisc: fix the exit status of arch/parisc/nm

Parisc overrides 'nm' with a shell script. I was hit by a false-positive
error of $(NM) because this script returns the exit code of grep instead
of ${CROSS_COMPILE}nm. (grep exits with 1 if no lines were selected)

I tried to fix it, but in the code review, Helge suggested to remove it
entirely. [1]

This script was added in 2003. [2]

Presumably, it was a workaround for old toolchains (but even the parisc
maintainer does not know the detail any more).

Hopefully recent tools should work fine.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1c12cd26-d8aa-4498-f4c0-29478b9578fe@gmx.de/
[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=36eaa6e4c0e0b6950136b956b72fd08155b92ca3

Suggested-by: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

I want to apply this to kbuild tree with Helge's Ack

 arch/parisc/Makefile | 1 -
 arch/parisc/nm       | 6 ------
 2 files changed, 7 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/parisc/nm

diff --git a/arch/parisc/Makefile b/arch/parisc/Makefile
index aca1710fd658..e38d993d87f2 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/parisc/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 boot := arch/parisc/boot
 KBUILD_IMAGE := $(boot)/bzImage
 
-NM		= sh $(srctree)/arch/parisc/nm
 CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__hppa__=1
 
 ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
diff --git a/arch/parisc/nm b/arch/parisc/nm
deleted file mode 100644
index c788308de33f..000000000000
--- a/arch/parisc/nm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-##
-# Hack to have an nm which removes the local symbols.  We also rely
-# on this nm being hidden out of the ordinarily executable path
-##
-${CROSS_COMPILE}nm $* | grep -v '.LC*[0-9]*$'
-- 
2.32.0