[kbuild-devel] Re: Makefile.modpost M= and __module_depends (was Re: Cross-arch builds?)

2005-01-29 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:56:14PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:48:08AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >(cross posting this on kbuild-devel for some fresh light) > > The list of modules that Kbuild considers above appears to be limited to > > those built

[kbuild-devel] Re: Makefile.modpost M= and __module_depends (was Re: Cross-arch builds?)

2005-01-29 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:41:21PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:40:06PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > What is missing in the above is when kbuild read in symbols from > > Module.symvers I sideeffect of reading in Module.symvers is also > > that modpost gets enough depende

[kbuild-devel] sorting out the kerntypes mess

2005-01-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
The various dumping projects like lkcd and the s390 VM dump require debug information for the kernel, and they're using a mechanism that compiles a small file containing nothing but includes for interesting types into a Kerntypes file for the debugger. Unfortunately the various current ways to gen

[kbuild-devel] Re: Makefile.modpost M= and __module_depends (was Re: Cross-arch builds?)

2005-01-29 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:40:06PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > What is missing in the above is when kbuild read in symbols from > Module.symvers I sideeffect of reading in Module.symvers is also > that modpost gets enough dependency information to build the depends > line correct. > > So if you m

[kbuild-devel] Re: Makefile.modpost M= and __module_depends (was Re: Cross-arch builds?)

2005-01-29 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 08:59:01PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > For running version of kernel: > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/Module.symvers should be correct. > If not the kernel has been installed in the wrong way. Well, yeah, it should be. Note that in Fedora Core 4 devel, they no longer prov