Re: [PATCH 0/2] modpost: skip section mismatch warnings on ELF local symbols by default

[Paul Walmsley]

Hi Sam,

On Sat, 20 Oct 2018, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> modpost is not supposed to be used outside the kernel build.
> And therefore if we introduce a new option then the infrastructure
> to enable that option should also be in place.
> In this particular case I cannot see why we should add the possibility
> to include local symbols, in other words do not add the option.
> Wait a few days before you kill it, maybe others see the usefulness of it.

I've dropped the optionality from the patch set.

> I checked if there were any options supported by modpost that
> was not configurable in makefile.modpost.
> And I could see that the -M and -K options in getopt() was leftovers.
> The code that used these option was was dropped in:
> a8773769d1a1e08d0ca15f890515401ab3860637 ("Kbuild: clear marker out of modpost")
>
> Could you add a patch that delete these on top of what you already have.

Done.  This patch is now in the v2 set which should appear shortly.

- Paul