Commit 9504bbe9 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada
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kbuild: doc: remove documentation about copying Module.symvers around



This is a left-over of commit 39808e45 ("kbuild: do not read
$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers").

Kbuild no longer supports this way.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
parent 8451791d
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		will then do the expected and compile both modules with
		full knowledge of symbols from either module.

	Use an extra Module.symvers file
		When an external module is built, a Module.symvers file
		is generated containing all exported symbols which are
		not defined in the kernel. To get access to symbols
		from bar.ko, copy the Module.symvers file from the
		compilation of bar.ko to the directory where foo.ko is
		built. During the module build, kbuild will read the
		Module.symvers file in the directory of the external
		module, and when the build is finished, a new
		Module.symvers file is created containing the sum of
		all symbols defined and not part of the kernel.

	Use "make" variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
		If it is impractical to add a top-level kbuild file,
		you can assign a space separated list