From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965088AbWEJX4U (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 19:56:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965093AbWEJX4U (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 19:56:20 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:19328 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965088AbWEJX4T (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 19:56:19 -0400 To: sam@ravnborg.org Subject: [PATCH 1/4] KBUILD: overview Cc: agruen@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, arjan@infradead.org, bunk@stusta.de, greg@kroah.com, hch@infradead.org, jbeulich@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, mathur@us.ibm.com Message-Id: <20060510235546.3006547002E@localhost> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:55:46 -0700 (PDT) From: linuxram@us.ibm.com (Ram Pai) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patch 2/4: adds export-type information of each exported symbol in Module.symvers file. Patch 3/4: Builds on functionality provided by patch 2. It prevents kbuild from producing modules that won't load. Patch 4/4: provides the report generation functionality, using the functionality provided by patch 2. A report generated by executing make allmodconfig make exportcheck is available at http://www.sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/new_export_report.txt This report lists: 1. the usage count of all exported symbols by in-kernel modules. 2. For each in-kernel module lists a) the in-kernel modules it depend on. b) list of exported symbols from that in-kernel modules it depend on. The same report can also be generated by executing from the top level directory: perl scripts/export_report.pl