[PATCH v5 7/7] documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections

Siddharth Nayyar
2026-03-26T21:25:33Z

*_gpl sections are no longer present in the kernel binary.

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.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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