[PATCH 00/29] modpost: various fixes, cleanups, optimizations

[Masahiro Yamada]

Masahiro Yamada (29):
  modpost: drop RCS/CVS $Revision handling in MODULE_VERSION()
  modpost: do not call get_modinfo() for vmlinux
  modpost: add read_text_file() and get_line() helpers
  modpost: fix potential mmap'ed file overrun in get_src_version()
  modpost: re-add warning about missing *.mod file
  modpost: avoid false-positive file open error
  modpost: use read_text_file() and get_line() for reading text files
  modpost: remove get_next_text() and make {grab,release_}file static
  kbuild: disallow multi-word in M= or KBUILD_EXTMOD
  modpost: move -T option close to the modpost command
  modpost: pass -N option only for modules modpost
  modpost: move external module options
  modpost: load KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS files in order
  modpost: track if the symbol origin is a dump file or ELF object
  modpost: allow to pass -i option multiple times remove -e option
  modpost: rename ext_sym_list to dump_list
  modpost: re-add -e to set external_module flag
  modpost: show warning if vmlinux is not found when processing modules
  modpost: show warning if it fails to read symbol dump file
  modpost: generate vmlinux.symvers and reuse it for the second modpost
  modpost: remove -s option
  modpost: remove mod->is_dot_o struct member
  modpost: remove is_vmlinux() call in check_for_{gpl_usage,unused}()
  modpost: add mod->is_vmlinux struct member
  modpost: remove mod->skip struct member
  modpost: set have_vmlinux in new_module()
  modpost: strip .o from modname before calling new_module()
  modpost: remove is_vmlinux() helper
  modpost: change elf_info->size to size_t

 .gitignore               |   1 +
 Makefile                 |  15 +-
 scripts/Makefile.modpost |  29 ++--
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh  |   2 -
 scripts/mod/modpost.c    | 309 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 scripts/mod/modpost.h    |  17 +--
 scripts/mod/sumversion.c | 114 ++++-----------
 7 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 292 deletions(-)

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