modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file

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.org/lkml/2019/10/28/467

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 70580bdd352c..72ef86a5570d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 *.lzo
 *.mod
 *.mod.c
-*.ns_deps
 *.o
 *.o.*
 *.patch
@@ -61,6 +60,7 @@ modules.order
 /System.map
 /Module.markers
 /modules.builtin.modinfo
+/modules.nsdeps
 
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