Re: [PATCH 2/7] kbuild: touch autoksyms.h when it is really missing

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Thu Mar 15 2018 - 02:27:34 EST


2018-03-15 2:26 GMT+09:00 Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>
>> From the comment, I expect this code creates autoksyms.h in case it
>> is missing, but it actually touches it when it does exists.
>
> Oops, indeed.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> I do not know when this code is useful...
>>
>> If autoksyms.h were missing, build should have already failed because
>> include/{linux,asm-generic}/export.h need it.
>>
>> Maybe for standalone test?
>> Or, in order to make this script self-contained?
>
> I agree it isn't very useful. Proof: it was wrong and wouldn't have
> worked as intended. So the best fix might be to simply remove that line.
>

OK, I will remove the code.




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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada