linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo

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Message-Id: <175873064730.2295881.4958403315180215995.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:17:27 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, 
 Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>, Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>, 
 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, 
 Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>, 
 Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@...sung.com>, Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] Add generated modalias to
 modules.builtin.modinfo


On Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:05:44 +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> The modules.builtin.modinfo file is used by userspace (kmod to be specific) to
> get information about builtin modules. Among other information about the module,
> information about module aliases is stored. This is very important to determine
> that a particular modalias will be handled by a module that is inside the
> kernel.
> 
> There are several mechanisms for creating modalias for modules:
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/8] s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/8d18ef04f940a
[2/8] kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/0ce5139fd96e9
[3/8] kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/3e86e4d74c049
[4/8] kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/39cfd5b12160b
[5/8] scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/b88f88c26705a
[6/8] modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/83fb49389bbe0
[7/8] modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/5ab23c7923a1d
[8/8] kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/3328d39a8dca2

Best regards,
-- 
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>