linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] module: make __mod_device_table_

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Message-ID: <4fefa5cb-462f-4e13-9d45-f58775d78bab@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 10:50:51 +0200
From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@...sung.com>, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
 Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: make __mod_device_table__* symbols static

On 6/2/25 12:55 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> The __mod_device_table__* symbols are only parsed by modpost to generate
> MODULE_ALIAS() entries from MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE().
> 
> Therefore, these symbols do not need to be globally visible, or globally
> unique.
> 
> If they are in the global scope, we would worry about the symbol
> uniqueness, but modpost is fine with parsing multiple symbols with the
> same name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>

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Thanks,
Petr