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

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNATQhR9PLSfEZ92FRuD4OGBEk1pk5DUtV4doif9JgUNhnQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 05:26:23 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>
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 Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com> wrote:
>
> 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>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Petr
>


Applied to linux-kbuild

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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada