Re: [PATCH] scripts: Remove export_report.pl

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 10:12 PM Matthew Maurer [off-list ref] wrote:

This script has been broken for 5 years with no user complaints.

It first had its .mod.c parser broken in commit a3d0cb04f7df ("modpost:
use __section in the output to *.mod.c"). Later, it had its object file
enumeration broken in commit f65a486821cf ("kbuild: change module.order
to list *.o instead of *.ko"). Both of these changes sat for years with
no reports.

Rather than reviving this script as we make further changes to `.mod.c`,
this patch gets rid of it because it is clearly unused.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <redacted>
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 scripts/export_report.pl | 186 -----------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 186 deletions(-)

The top-level Makefile should be cleaned up.

$ git grep export_report -- Makefile
Makefile:       @echo  '  export_report   - List the usages of all
exported symbols'
Makefile:PHONY += includecheck versioncheck coccicheck export_report
Makefile:export_report:
Makefile:       $(PERL) $(srctree)/scripts/export_report.pl







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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada