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    modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file · bbc55bde
    Masahiro Yamada authored
    The modpost, with the -d option given, generates per-module .ns_deps
    files.
    
    Kbuild generates per-module .mod files to carry module information.
    This is convenient because Make handles multiple jobs in parallel
    when the -j option is given.
    
    On the other hand, the modpost always runs as a single thread.
    I do not see a strong reason to produce separate .ns_deps files.
    
    This commit changes the modpost to generate just one file,
    modules.nsdeps, each line of which has the following format:
    
      <module_name>: <list of missing namespaces>
    
    Please note it contains *missing* namespaces instead of required ones.
    So, modules.nsdeps is empty if the namespace dependency is all good.
    
    This will work more efficiently because spatch will no longer process
    already imported namespaces. I removed the '(if needed)' from the
    nsdeps log since spatch is invoked only when needed.
    
    This also solves the stale .ns_deps problem reported by Jessica Yu:
    
      https://lkml....
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