linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 4/8] kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped

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Message-ID: <aMqiKCjYhRg0tx5h@levanger>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:57:28 +0200
From: Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>
To: Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
	Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@...sung.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/8] kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from
 vmlinux.unstripped

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 06:54:58PM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> 
> Currently, we assume all the data for modules.builtin.modinfo are
> available in vmlinux.o.
> 
> This makes it impossible for modpost, which is invoked after vmlinux.o,
> to add additional module info.
> 
> This commit moves the modules.builtin.modinfo rule after modpost.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>
> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.vmlinux   | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o | 26 +-------------------------
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>