linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: Remove export

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNATYQAfsvU+Gm8FqBkKV-EMgHWD8Fp_mVrR5Uq81Lv5nEw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:02:46 +0100
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@...gle.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, 
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: Remove export_report.pl

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 10:12 PM Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> This script has been broken for 5 years with no user complaints.
>
> It first had its .mod.c parser broken in commit a3d0cb04f7df ("modpost:
> use __section in the output to *.mod.c"). Later, it had its object file
> enumeration broken in commit f65a486821cf ("kbuild: change module.order
> to list *.o instead of *.ko"). Both of these changes sat for years with
> no reports.
>
> Rather than reviving this script as we make further changes to `.mod.c`,
> this patch gets rid of it because it is clearly unused.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@...gle.com>
> ---
>  scripts/export_report.pl | 186 -----------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 186 deletions(-)


The top-level Makefile should be cleaned up.

$ git grep export_report -- Makefile
Makefile:       @echo  '  export_report   - List the usages of all
exported symbols'
Makefile:PHONY += includecheck versioncheck coccicheck export_report
Makefile:export_report:
Makefile:       $(PERL) $(srctree)/scripts/export_report.pl







-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada