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    modpost: remove mod->is_dot_o struct member · 3379576d
    Masahiro Yamada authored
    Previously, there were two cases where mod->is_dot_o is unset:
    
    [1] the executable 'vmlinux' in the second pass of modpost
    [2] modules loaded by read_dump()
    
    I think [1] was intended usage to distinguish 'vmlinux.o' and 'vmlinux'.
    Now that modpost does not parse the executable 'vmlinux', this case
    does not happen.
    
    [2] is obscure, maybe a bug. Module.symver stores module paths without
    extension. So, none of modules loaded by read_dump() has the .o suffix,
    and new_module() unsets ->is_dot_o. Anyway, it is not a big deal because
    handle_symbol() is not called for the case.
    
    To sum up, all the parsed ELF files are .o files.
    
    mod->is_dot_o is unneeded.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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