From: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
To: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>,
Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 6/8] modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 08:31:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aNOQJH8kDW3lFHf-@levanger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a0d0bd87a4981d465b9ed21e14f4e78eaa03ded.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org>
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 10:05:50AM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> At this point, if a symbol is compiled as part of the kernel,
> information about which module the symbol belongs to is lost.
>
> To save this it is possible to add the module name to the alias name.
> It's not very pretty, but it's possible for now.
>
> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
> Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
> Cc: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
> ---
> include/linux/module.h | 14 +++++++++++++-
> rust/kernel/device_id.rs | 8 ++++----
> scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
> 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
--
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-24 6:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-18 8:05 [PATCH v8 0/8] Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo Alexey Gladkov
2025-09-18 8:05 ` [PATCH v8 1/8] s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections Alexey Gladkov
2025-09-18 8:05 ` [PATCH v8 2/8] kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped Alexey Gladkov
2025-09-18 8:05 ` [PATCH v8 3/8] kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped Alexey Gladkov
2025-09-24 6:29 ` Nicolas Schier
2025-09-18 8:05 ` [PATCH v8 4/8] kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped Alexey Gladkov
2025-09-18 8:05 ` [PATCH v8 5/8] scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure Alexey Gladkov
2025-09-18 8:05 ` [PATCH v8 6/8] modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias Alexey Gladkov
2025-09-24 6:31 ` Nicolas Schier [this message]
2025-09-18 8:05 ` [PATCH v8 7/8] modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules Alexey Gladkov
2025-09-24 6:38 ` Nicolas Schier
2025-10-07 1:16 ` Charles Mirabile
2025-10-07 10:15 ` Alexey Gladkov
2025-10-09 19:52 ` Nicolas Schier
2025-10-10 5:37 ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-10-10 8:02 ` Alexey Gladkov
2025-10-10 10:58 ` Alexey Gladkov
2025-10-10 13:24 ` Charles Mirabile
2025-09-18 8:05 ` [PATCH v8 8/8] kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o Alexey Gladkov
2025-09-24 6:39 ` Nicolas Schier
2025-09-18 17:35 ` [PATCH v8 0/8] Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo Nathan Chancellor
2025-09-24 16:17 ` Nathan Chancellor
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