linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: Remove export

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Message-ID: <ZyMIDieFsLC-MiA0@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:31:10 -0700
From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@...gle.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: Remove export_report.pl

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 05:16:34PM +0000, Matthew Maurer 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>

Thanks! Applied and pushed!

  Luis