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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:17:07 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 6/9] modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
Cc: "Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@kernel.org>, "Nicolas Schier"
 <nicolas.schier@linux.dev>, "Masahiro Yamada" <masahiroy@kernel.org>, "Petr
 Pavlu" <petr.pavlu@suse.com>, "Luis Chamberlain" <mcgrof@kernel.org>, "Sami
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To: "Alexey Gladkov" <legion@kernel.org>
From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>
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 <DC26OG2L7OMH.31RE7460D4DHU@kernel.org> <aJ3qsonmvUUErQx9@example.org>
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On Thu Aug 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM CEST, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> Again, no. We need the entire symbol to be unique so that the linker
> doesn't complain. In fact, this symbol will later be removed from the elf=
.
> It is only needed for the modpost utility.

Gotcha -- I think I got confused; for the device ID parts:

Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>