[PATCH] kbuild: doc: remove documentation about copying Module.symvers around

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Thu May 21 2020 - 00:32:22 EST


This is a left-over of commit 39808e451fdf ("kbuild: do not read
$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers").

Kbuild no longer supports this way.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 12 ------------
1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
index e0b45a257f21..a45cccff467d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
@@ -528,18 +528,6 @@ build.
will then do the expected and compile both modules with
full knowledge of symbols from either module.

- Use an extra Module.symvers file
- When an external module is built, a Module.symvers file
- is generated containing all exported symbols which are
- not defined in the kernel. To get access to symbols
- from bar.ko, copy the Module.symvers file from the
- compilation of bar.ko to the directory where foo.ko is
- built. During the module build, kbuild will read the
- Module.symvers file in the directory of the external
- module, and when the build is finished, a new
- Module.symvers file is created containing the sum of
- all symbols defined and not part of the kernel.
-
Use "make" variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
If it is impractical to add a top-level kbuild file,
you can assign a space separated list
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