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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.

 - f1c3d73e97 ("module: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE")
 - 367948220f ("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 bd5cbcedf4 ("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
arch kbuild: factor out the common installation code into scripts/install.sh 2022-05-11 21:45:53 +09:00
block for-5.18/block-2022-04-01 2022-04-01 16:20:00 -07:00
certs kbuild: Allow kernel installation packaging to override pkg-config 2022-04-05 17:03:31 +09:00
crypto for-5.18/64bit-pi-2022-03-25 2022-03-26 12:01:35 -07:00
Documentation docs: kbuild: add references on Kconfig semantics 2022-04-06 19:27:41 +09:00
drivers A single revert to fix a boot regression seen when clk_put() started 2022-04-03 12:21:14 -07:00
fs Updates to Tracing: 2022-04-03 12:26:01 -07:00
include Updates to Tracing: 2022-04-03 12:26:01 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
ipc fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
kernel kheaders: Have cpio unconditionally replace files 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
lib for-5.18/block-2022-04-01 2022-04-01 16:20:00 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm Filesystem/VFS changes for 5.18, part two 2022-04-01 13:50:50 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.18-rc1 and rethook patches. 2022-03-31 11:23:31 -07:00
samples dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.18 2022-03-29 08:50:14 -07:00
scripts modpost: change the license of EXPORT_SYMBOL to bool type 2022-05-11 21:46:39 +09:00
security hardening updates for v5.18-rc1-fix1 2022-03-31 11:43:01 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.18-rc1 2022-04-01 10:32:46 -07:00
tools kbuild: Allow kernel installation packaging to override pkg-config 2022-04-05 17:03:31 +09:00
usr kbuild: uapi: use -fsyntax-only rather than -S 2022-04-05 17:03:31 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove dirty handling from gfn_to_pfn_cache completely 2022-04-02 05:34:41 -04:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Kirill's email 2022-04-01 11:46:09 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS chrome platform changes for 5.18 2022-04-02 10:44:18 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: factor out the common installation code into scripts/install.sh 2022-05-11 21:45:53 +09:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.