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Masahiro Yamada b842271108 modpost: make multiple export error
This is currently a warning, but I think modpost should stop building
in this case.

If the same symbol is exported multiple times and we let it keep going,
the sanity check becomes difficult.

Only the legitimate case is that an external module overrides the
corresponding in-tree module to provide a different implementation
with the same interface.

Also, there exists an upstream example that exploits this feature.

  $ make M=tools/testing/nvdimm

... builds tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko. This is a mocked module
that overrides the symbols from drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
2022-05-08 03:17:01 +09:00
arch ia64: make the install target not depend on any build artifact 2022-05-08 03:17:00 +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
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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: make multiple export error 2022-05-08 03:17:01 +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
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.