linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 01/18] tools: Add gendwarfksyms

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNATK9rSm4AUSneq=aYbADatPL=1eUXuYRChX+WU+zNTyKw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:50:48 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@...gle.com>, 
	Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, 
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>, Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@...sung.com>, Neal Gompa <neal@...pa.dev>, 
	Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>, Janne Grunau <j@...nau.net>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, 
	Asahi Linux <asahi@...ts.linux.dev>, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>, 
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/18] tools: Add gendwarfksyms

On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 8:30 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 08:42:22PM +0000, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > Add a basic DWARF parser, which uses libdw to traverse the debugging
> > information in an object file and looks for functions and variables.
> > In follow-up patches, this will be expanded to produce symbol versions
> > for CONFIG_MODVERSIONS from DWARF.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>
> > ---
> >  kernel/module/Kconfig                 |   8 ++
> >  scripts/Makefile                      |   1 +
> >  scripts/gendwarfksyms/.gitignore      |   2 +
>
> This doesn't add scripts/gendwarfksyms to MAINTAINERS
> but then again   scripts/genksyms/ is not there either
> but it does got to Masahiro.

scripts/genksyms/ is a very old tool with no maintainer.

It defaults to the maintainer of the scripts/ directory (i.e. me)



>
> Masahiro, should we just add both to KERNEL BUILD and add
> Sami as a Reviewer to help with gendwarfksyms?

I think it is better to have a separate entry for

F:  scripts/gendwarfksyms/

with Sami as the maintainer.




>
>   Luis




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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada