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Masahiro Yamada 2a66c3124a modpost: change the license of EXPORT_SYMBOL to bool type

There were more EXPORT_SYMBOL types in the past. The following commits
removed unused ones.

 - f1c3d73e973c ("module: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE")
 - 367948220fce ("module: remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL*")

There are 3 remaining in enum export, but export_unknown does not make
any sense because we never expect such a situation like "we do not know
how it was exported".

If the symbol name starts with "__ksymtab_", but the section name
does not start with "___ksymtab+" or "___ksymtab_gpl+", it is not an
exported symbol.

It occurs when a variable starting with "__ksymtab_" is directly defined:

   int __ksymtab_foo;

Presumably, there is no practical issue for using such a weird variable
name (but there is no good reason for doing so, either).

Anyway, that is not an exported symbol. Setting export_unknown is not
the right thing to do. Do not call sym_add_exported() in this case.

With pointless export_unknown removed, the export type finally becomes
boolean (either EXPORT_SYMBOL or EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL).

I renamed the field name to is_gpl_only. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL sets it true.
Only GPL-compatible modules can use it.

I removed the orphan comment, "How a symbol is exported", which is
unrelated to sec_mismatch_count. It is about enum export.
See commit bd5cbcedf446 ("kbuild: export-type enhancement to modpost.c")

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

2022-05-11 21:46:39 +09:00

.gitignore

.gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash

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devicetable-offsets.c

HID: intel-ish-hid: add support for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()

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empty.c

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file2alias.c

HID: intel-ish-hid: add support for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()

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