linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 07/10] modpost: Add -b option for emitting built-in aliases

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Message-ID: <Y6FZniRwpogJ0HaG@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:43:42 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Allen Webb <allenwebb@...gle.com>
Cc:     "linux-modules@...r.kernel.org" <linux-modules@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 07/10] modpost: Add -b option for emitting built-in
 aliases

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 02:46:15PM -0600, Allen Webb wrote:
> This adds an unimplemented command line flag for writing the built-in
> aliases to a file.

If it is unimplemented, why add it?

And this needs a lot more description as to why you are changing this
here, as well as documentation for the flag you added, right?

thanks,

greg k-h