# Re: \[PATCH v10 03/13\] kbuild: add tristate checker

- From: Masahiro Yamada \<masahiroy@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2023-03-05 15:11:09 
- List: linux-trace-kernel
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-trace-kernel/2023/03/2120632
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-modules/2022/12/2030624/t.md

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On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 1:32 AM Nick Alcock [ref] wrote:
>
> This new check target uses the tristate.conf machinery just added, and
> modules.builtin.objs, to identify source files that have MODULE_*
> declarations despite not being modules according to Kconfig.  After
> commit 8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
> Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), all such declarations will cause
> modprobe to misidentify their containing object file as a module when it
> is not, which might cause it to spuriously fail when trying to load
> something that is built in to the kernel.




Having false-positives in modules.builtin should be OK.


Also, scripts/check-tristates.mk is just a rename of
scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin.


NACK.





--
Best Regards


Masahiro Yamada
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