kbuild: doc: remove "Objects which export symbols" section
authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Sun, 17 Jan 2021 11:51:56 +0000 (20:51 +0900)
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 03:01:45 +0000 (12:01 +0900)
EXPORT_SYMBOL is unrelated to makefiles. No need to mention it.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst

index 300d8ed..aee9d90 100644 (file)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles.
           --- 3.1 Goal definitions
           --- 3.2 Built-in object goals - obj-y
           --- 3.3 Loadable module goals - obj-m
-          --- 3.4 Objects which export symbols
+          --- 3.4 <deleted>
           --- 3.5 Library file goals - lib-y
           --- 3.6 Descending down in directories
           --- 3.7 Non-builtin vmlinux targets - extra-y
@@ -247,12 +247,6 @@ more details, with real examples.
        kbuild will build an ext2.o file for you out of the individual
        parts and then link this into built-in.a, as you would expect.
 
-3.4 Objects which export symbols
---------------------------------
-
-       No special notation is required in the makefiles for
-       modules exporting symbols.
-
 3.5 Library file goals - lib-y
 ------------------------------