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,
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Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
