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Message-ID: <20251013153918.2206045-9-sidnayyar@google.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:39:16 +0000
From: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@...gle.com>
To: petr.pavlu@...e.com
Cc: arnd@...db.de, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, 
	mcgrof@...nel.org, nathan@...nel.org, nicolas.schier@...ux.dev, 
	samitolvanen@...gle.com, sidnayyar@...gle.com, maennich@...gle.com, 
	gprocida@...gle.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 08/10] remove references to *_gpl sections in documentation

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>
---
 Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
index d0703605bfa4..b3a26a36ee17 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
@@ -426,11 +426,12 @@ 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,
-	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.
+	Exported symbols have information stored in the __ksymtab and
+	__kflagstab sections. 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 section.
 
 	If CONFIG_BASIC_MODVERSIONS is enabled (default with
 	CONFIG_MODVERSIONS), imported symbols will have their symbol name and
-- 
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