linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/4] um: Prevent building modules incompatible with MODVERSIONS

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Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2023 23:49:09 -0500
From:   Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>
To:     Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] um: Prevent building modules incompatible with MODVERSIONS

The manual ld invocation in arch/um/drivers doesn't play nicely with
genksyms. Given the problematic modules are deprecated anyway, just
prevent building them when using MODVERSIONS.

e.g.
MODPOST Module.symvers
arch/um/drivers/.pcap.o.cmd: No such file or directory
---
 arch/um/drivers/Kconfig | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig b/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig
index a4f0a19fbe14..36911b1fddcf 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ config UML_NET_VECTOR
 config UML_NET_VDE
 	bool "VDE transport (obsolete)"
 	depends on UML_NET
+	depends on !MODVERSIONS
 	select MAY_HAVE_RUNTIME_DEPS
 	help
 	  This User-Mode Linux network transport allows one or more running
@@ -309,6 +310,7 @@ config UML_NET_MCAST
 config UML_NET_PCAP
 	bool "pcap transport (obsolete)"
 	depends on UML_NET
+	depends on !MODVERSIONS
 	select MAY_HAVE_RUNTIME_DEPS
 	help
 	  The pcap transport makes a pcap packet stream on the host look

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