The bli module has a "hidden" dependency on the part_gpt module, which
is not picked up automatically by the build system. One purpose of the
bli module is to communicate the GPT UUID of the partition GRUB was
launched from to Linux user-space (systemd-gpt-auto-generator).
Without the part_gpt module, bli is not able to obtain the UUID. Since
bli does its work in the module initialization function, the order in
which the modules are loaded is also important: part_gpt needs to be
loaded before the bli module.
To solve this, track this dependency explicitly.
Note that the Boot Loader Interface specification, which bli aims to
implement, requires GPT formatted drives. The bli module ignores all
other partition formats.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
The build system deduces inter-module dependencies from the symbols
required and exported by the modules. This works well, except for some
rare cases where the dependency is indirect or hidden. A module might
not make use of any function of some other module, but still expect its
functionality to be available to GRUB.
To solve this, introduce a new file, currently empty, called extra_deps.lst
to track these cases manually. This file gets processed in the same way
as the automatically generated syminfo.lst, making it possible to inject
data into the dependency resolver.
Since *.lst files are set to be ignored by git, add an exception for
extra_deps.lst.
Additionally, introduce a new keyword for the syminfo.lst syntax:
"depends" allows specifying a module dependency directly:
depends <module> <depdendency>...
Signed-off-by: Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
