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Message-ID: <CAJzde06FdTuj4HbZ+tAuOzFPY3C9XUMEKk-MVNj+E6z8r61uyA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:49:21 -0600
From: Allen Webb <allenwebb@...gle.com>
To: "linux-modules@...r.kernel.org" <linux-modules@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 10/10] docs: Include modules.builtin.alias
Please disregard this patch. I updated the commit message and this was
hanging around in my outgoing directory afterward.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:46 PM Allen Webb <allenwebb@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Update the documentation to include the presense and use case of
> modules.builtin.alias.
>
> Signed-off-by: Allen Webb <allenwebb@...gle.com>
> ---
> Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
> index 08f575e6236c..1c7c02040a54 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
> @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ modules.builtin
> This file lists all modules that are built into the kernel. This is used
> by modprobe to not fail when trying to load something builtin.
>
> +modules.builtin.alias
> +---------------------
> +This file lists all match-id based aliases for modules built into the kernel.
> +These are intended to enable userspace to make authorization decisions based
> +on which modules are likely to be bound to a device after it is authorized.
> +
> modules.builtin.modinfo
> -----------------------
> This file contains modinfo from all modules that are built into the kernel.
> --
> 2.37.3
>
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