From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
To: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Cc: linjh22s@gmail.com, Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
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
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:56:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260121235616.GA3887168@ax162> (raw)
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::
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-21 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-14 11:47 [PATCH v2 0/2] gendwarfksyms: Document build dependencies Jihan LIN via B4 Relay
2026-01-14 11:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/kbuild: Document gendwarfksyms " Jihan LIN via B4 Relay
2026-01-20 12:17 ` Petr Pavlu
2026-01-21 23:56 ` Nathan Chancellor [this message]
2026-01-14 11:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation/kbuild: gendwarfksyms: Style cleanup Jihan LIN via B4 Relay
2026-01-20 12:18 ` Petr Pavlu
2026-01-22 0:00 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] gendwarfksyms: Document build dependencies Nathan Chancellor
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