From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC71B421A08; Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769039781; cv=none; b=S2j50QfJeL4VY5tieDVCxEVMPAz3q8MVfwJI1ubt90plXLf0d54U6oJf6czJO//vCJbVREVQUut3I6VQURaqCfzgbk01lVsNsv2IpqCaoyb/YBxeVSiN1ErJ0LgVfGV4K2diphev9OhOvQ0BSrOrhyc14yae+PsNGxhZLWYn/No= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769039781; c=relaxed/simple; bh=TGmzJQxYNjTwc1evAvFZSARhHl6cW44HegJFImhXa0g=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=ld4Jf2HzJwwoboSXWvCzW6+sY2RC5TlIRbCmMc1cPAbmvElcPcnTW1mcRcodb+SkQ41qsorpVdlqA7F9o634Ij/vNm2g2N4QyiAx8BZ1cDNtZ9aanQcRAs7Jsc52iT+SSXcF5U8s1rtdOwKJSphygDmbm0Motdly8CvRVQWW1Rw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=hFgxsSFy; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="hFgxsSFy" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF4DEC4CEF1; Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:56:18 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1769039781; bh=TGmzJQxYNjTwc1evAvFZSARhHl6cW44HegJFImhXa0g=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=hFgxsSFyHLPuXXazm/yY7h2wWICHHfYZ9AQnPoIqED+aIpWmNvbrIRABEZ0tptNe3 T7HYKOFGn/6FSFlZPuSJ3E9Zon1uC3FrBeIzgTlhuDUIAq3nmvl83x4dA1haSH5/z/ PCJGVW8k/7dgI81iFtk4VQOlK43lzSq0TfVIcAwTCJmlKnUyyXQHdl/+5ePbM0jDOC XxaF44qeUborkYetOMlVs+9UHTUmIhdWo2h7rIsaahNefFLYcSS+UvN/y7t/1P6zPA IsK8A6FvKZ+2GfMAEFrnoC8CCMqjoAg9Y1HnBa+PwC40wODYiUu7Tgg559Glp89k/6 Z2A9QsWpSCw/g== Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:56:16 -0700 From: Nathan Chancellor To: Petr Pavlu Cc: linjh22s@gmail.com, Nicolas Schier , Jonathan Corbet , Miguel Ojeda , Boqun Feng , Sami Tolvanen , Masahiro Yamada , linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/kbuild: Document gendwarfksyms build dependencies Message-ID: <20260121235616.GA3887168@ax162> References: <20260114-documents_gendwarfksyms-v2-0-297c98bd62c6@gmail.com> <20260114-documents_gendwarfksyms-v2-1-297c98bd62c6@gmail.com> <4d379736-9b6a-4e40-ad67-53ee7498759c@suse.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4d379736-9b6a-4e40-ad67-53ee7498759c@suse.com> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 01:17:48PM +0100, Petr Pavlu wrote: > Nit: I suggest slightly adjusting the text to something like: > > """ > Gendwarfksyms depends on the libelf, libdw, and zlib libraries. > > Here are a few examples of how to install these dependencies: > """ > > .. and swap the items on the pacman line to 'libelf zlib' so the order > is always libelf, libdw, zlib. I applied the following diff to this change and applied these to kbuild-next. diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst index 0e153d13b052..c5e4617b4b41 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst @@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ details about the final module ABI. Dependencies ------------ -libelf, libdw and zlib are dependencies of gendwarfksyms. +gendwarfksyms depends on the libelf, libdw, and zlib libraries. -Here are a few examples for installing these dependencies: +Here are a few examples of how to install these dependencies: * Arch Linux and derivatives:: - sudo pacman --needed -S zlib libelf + sudo pacman --needed -S libelf zlib * Debian, Ubuntu, and derivatives::