Re: [PATCH v4 08/12] scripts: Coccinelle script for namespace dependencies.

[Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 06:53:25PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 12:07 AM Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> A script that uses the '<module>.ns_deps' files generated by modpost to
>> automatically add the required symbol namespace dependencies to each
>> module.
>>
>> Usage:
>> 1) Move some symbols to a namespace with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() or define
>>    DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE
>> 2) Run 'make' (or 'make modules') and get warnings about modules not
>>    importing that namespace.
>> 3) Run 'make nsdeps' to automatically add required import statements
>>    to said modules.
>>
>> This makes it easer for subsystem maintainers to introduce and maintain
>> symbol namespaces into their codebase.
>>
>> Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
>> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
>> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
>
>
>Without any correct dependency,
>this does not work.

You are right, 'nsdeps' needs to depend on 'modules' to make that work.
I will fix that in the next version.

>$ make clean; make nsdeps
>cat: modules.order: No such file or directory
>cat: ./modules.order: No such file or directory
>
>
>I do not see any point in the Makefile changes.