[PATCH v5 11/14] module: update timestamp of modules.order after modules are built
From: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Date: 2026-05-05 09:10:44
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bpf, linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-integrity, linux-kbuild, linux-modules, linux-security-module, lkml
Subsystem:
kernel build + files below scripts/ (unless maintained elsewhere), the rest · Maintainers:
Nathan Chancellor, Nicolas Schier, Linus Torvalds
Make sure that modules.order is always newer than the module .ko files. Other rules can then use modules.order as a prerequisite and rerun if any module is (re-)built. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> --- scripts/Makefile.modfinal | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modfinal b/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
index b09040ccddd2..44a382689a5a 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modfinal@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ endif targets += $(modules:%.o=%.ko) $(modules:%.o=%.mod.o) .module-common.o +# Update modules.order when a module is (re-)built. +# Allow using it as target dependency. +targets += modules.order +__modfinal: modules.order +modules.order: $(modules:%.o=%.ko) + @touch $@ + # Add FORCE to the prerequisites of a target to force it to be always rebuilt. # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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