linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] modpost: drop '*_probe' from section check whitelist

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Message-Id: <176589079524.3551554.8965194250869606940.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:13:15 +0900
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, 
 Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>, Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, 
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: drop '*_probe' from section check whitelist

On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:16:13 +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Several symbol patterns used to be whitelisted to allow drivers to refer
> to functions annotated with __devinit and __devexit, which have since
> been removed.
> 
> Commit e1dc1bfe5b27 ("modpost: remove more symbol patterns from the
> section check whitelist") removed most of these patterns but left
> '*_probe' after a reported warning in an irqchip driver.
> 
> [...]

Applied to

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux.git kbuild-next

Thanks!

[1/1] modpost: drop '*_probe' from section check whitelist
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/a4df2071f1a2b

Please look out for regression or issue reports or other follow up
comments, as they may result in the patch/series getting dropped or
reverted.

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