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Message-ID: <b394956c-5973-438b-9e43-f7081a89fa97@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 15:24:35 +0200
From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>
To: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@...gle.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Sami Tolvanen
 <samitolvanen@...gle.com>, Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>,
 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] remove references to *_gpl sections in
 documentation

On 8/29/25 12:54 PM, Siddharth Nayyar wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@...gle.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
> index d0703605bfa4..f2022fa2342f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
> @@ -426,11 +426,11 @@ Symbols From the Kernel (vmlinux + modules)
>  Version Information Formats
>  ---------------------------
>  
> -	Exported symbols have information stored in __ksymtab or __ksymtab_gpl
> -	sections. Symbol names and namespaces are stored in __ksymtab_strings,
> +	Exported symbols have information stored in the __ksymtab section.
> +	Symbol names and namespaces are stored in __ksymtab_strings section,
>  	using a format similar to the string table used for ELF. If
>  	CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is enabled, the CRCs corresponding to exported
> -	symbols will be added to the __kcrctab or __kcrctab_gpl.
> +	symbols will be added to the __kcrctab section.
>  
>  	If CONFIG_BASIC_MODVERSIONS is enabled (default with
>  	CONFIG_MODVERSIONS), imported symbols will have their symbol name and

Nit: I realize this part of the document primarily discusses sections
related to modversions, but I think it would be good to briefly mention
also the existence of the __kflagstab section. The first sentence could
say:

Exported symbols have information stored in the __ksymtab and
__kflagstab sections.

-- 
Thanks,
Petr