• Masahiro Yamada's avatar
    modpost: traverse modules in order · 325eba05
    Masahiro Yamada authored
    Currently, modpost manages modules in a singly linked list; it adds
    a new node to the head, and traverses the list from new to old.
    
    It works, but the error messages are shown in the reverse order.
    
    If you have a Makefile like this:
    
      obj-m += foo.o bar.o
    
    then, modpost shows error messages in bar.o, foo.o, in this order.
    
    Use a doubly linked list to keep the order in modules.order; use
    list_add_tail() for the node addition and list_for_each_entry() for
    the list traverse.
    
    Now that the kernel's list macros have been imported to modpost, I will
    use them actively going forward.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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