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From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: doc: remove "Objects which export symbols" section
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 20:51:56 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210117115156.2394975-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> (raw)

EXPORT_SYMBOL is unrelated to makefiles. No need to mention it.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

 Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
index 9f6a11881951..949f09ea3f1a 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles.
 	   --- 3.1 Goal definitions
 	   --- 3.2 Built-in object goals - obj-y
 	   --- 3.3 Loadable module goals - obj-m
-	   --- 3.4 Objects which export symbols
+	   --- 3.4 <deleted>
 	   --- 3.5 Library file goals - lib-y
 	   --- 3.6 Descending down in directories
 	   --- 3.7 Non-builtin vmlinux targets - extra-y
@@ -247,12 +247,6 @@ more details, with real examples.
 	kbuild will build an ext2.o file for you out of the individual
 	parts and then link this into built-in.a, as you would expect.
 
-3.4 Objects which export symbols
---------------------------------
-
-	No special notation is required in the makefiles for
-	modules exporting symbols.
-
 3.5 Library file goals - lib-y
 ------------------------------
 
-- 
2.27.0


             reply	other threads:[~2021-01-17 11:53 UTC|newest]

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2021-01-20  5:54 ` [PATCH] kbuild: doc: remove "Objects which export symbols" section Masahiro Yamada

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