Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/13] module: core code clean up

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Wed Jan 12 2022 - 10:52:38 EST


On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 01:21:04PM +0000, Aaron Tomlin wrote:
> On Tue 2022-01-11 17:16 -0800, Allen wrote:
> > Hi Aaron,
>
> Hi Allen,
>
> > Was the code compile tested?
>
> Not entirely i.e. not the whole of kernel/module/Makefile, unfortunately.
> Furthermore, only x86-64 was compiled tested. At the moment, I felt the
> need to share the concept/or approach thus far to simply obtain some
> overall feedback before further modifications.
>
> > Unfortunately, I could not apply the series cleanly on top of the
> > latest 5.17-rc1.
>
> Sorry about that: this work was based on Linus' commit 81361b837a34 ("Merge
> tag 'kbuild-v5.14' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.").

Please work off of modules-next tree:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git/log/?h=modules-next

That is, this tree on the modules-next branch:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git

Luis