linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/kbuild: Document gendwarfksyms build dependencies

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Message-ID: <20260121235616.GA3887168@ax162>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:56:16 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>
Cc: linjh22s@...il.com, Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/kbuild: Document gendwarfksyms
 build dependencies

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 01:17:48PM +0100, Petr Pavlu wrote:
> Nit: I suggest slightly adjusting the text to something like:
> 
> """
> Gendwarfksyms depends on the libelf, libdw, and zlib libraries.
> 
> Here are a few examples of how to install these dependencies:
> """
> 
> .. and swap the items on the pacman line to 'libelf zlib' so the order
> is always libelf, libdw, zlib.

I applied the following diff to this change and applied these to
kbuild-next.

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst
index 0e153d13b052..c5e4617b4b41 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ details about the final module ABI.
 Dependencies
 ------------
 
-libelf, libdw and zlib are dependencies of gendwarfksyms.
+gendwarfksyms depends on the libelf, libdw, and zlib libraries.
 
-Here are a few examples for installing these dependencies:
+Here are a few examples of how to install these dependencies:
 
 * Arch Linux and derivatives::
 
-	sudo pacman --needed -S zlib libelf
+	sudo pacman --needed -S libelf zlib
 
 * Debian, Ubuntu, and derivatives::