From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756875AbcBHW2c (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:28:32 -0500 Received: from mail-qg0-f45.google.com ([209.85.192.45]:35208 "EHLO mail-qg0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756859AbcBHW20 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:28:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:28:22 -0500 (EST) From: Nicolas Pitre To: Sam Ravnborg cc: Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] kbuild: record needed exported symbols for modules In-Reply-To: <20160208221256.GA13832@ravnborg.org> Message-ID: References: <1454963315-20468-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> <1454963315-20468-2-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> <20160208221256.GA13832@ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (LFD 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 8 Feb 2016, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > +# List module undefined symbols > > +ifdef CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS > > +cmd_undef_syms = $(NM) $@ | sed -n 's/^ \+U \(.*\)/\1/p' | xargs echo > > +else > > +cmd_undef_syms = echo > > +endif > Use ":" as a "do nothing" cammand. Then you do not emit an empty line. I wanted to emit that empty line though. This way it is less likely that it'll be reused for other purposes. Nicolas