Re: [PATCH v7 3/8] kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped

Alexey Gladkov
2025-09-17T06:49:11Z

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 06:10:10PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 03:28:09PM +0200, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> > yeah, it's actually because I dislike modifying vmlinux.unstripped in
> > the vmlinux rule.
> >
> > But it may be that Nathan does not see it this way.
>
> Yeah, I would agree that it is good form to avoid modifying the inputs
> of a rule.
>
> This warning is pretty annoying since it is intentional but we do not
> have great tools to hide just this one instance it seems... This is
> probably worth a comment.
>
> It would be nice if this section could be marked as NOLOAD from the
> beginning but that will mess with extracting .modinfo via objcopy from
> my brief testing.
>

Yeah, I was thinking about that too.

Ok, I will make a new version of the patchset with fixes.

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