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From: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	 Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev>,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,  Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 08/10] remove references to *_gpl sections in documentation
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:54:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250829105418.3053274-9-sidnayyar@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250829105418.3053274-1-sidnayyar@google.com>

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
---
 Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
index d0703605bfa4..f2022fa2342f 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
@@ -426,11 +426,11 @@ 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,
+	Exported symbols have information stored in the __ksymtab section.
+	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 or __kcrctab_gpl.
+	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
-- 
2.51.0.338.gd7d06c2dae-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-08-29 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-29 10:54 [RFC PATCH 00/10] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 01/10] define kernel symbol flags Siddharth Nayyar
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 02/10] linker: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 03/10] modpost: create entries for kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 04/10] module loader: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-08 13:19   ` Petr Pavlu
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 05/10] modpost: put all exported symbols in ksymtab section Siddharth Nayyar
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 06/10] module loader: remove references of *_gpl sections Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-08 13:22   ` Petr Pavlu
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 07/10] linker: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules Siddharth Nayyar
2025-08-29 10:54 ` Siddharth Nayyar [this message]
2025-10-08 13:24   ` [PATCH 08/10] remove references to *_gpl sections in documentation Petr Pavlu
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 09/10] modpost: add symbol import protection flag to kflagstab Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-08 13:35   ` Petr Pavlu
2025-08-29 10:54 ` [PATCH 10/10] module loader: enforce symbol import protection Siddharth Nayyar
2025-10-08 15:35   ` Petr Pavlu
2025-09-01 12:27 ` [RFC PATCH 00/10] scalable symbol flags with __kflagstab Petr Pavlu
2025-09-03 23:28   ` Sid Nayyar
2025-09-08 10:09     ` Petr Pavlu
2025-09-15 15:53       ` Sid Nayyar
2025-09-22 11:41         ` Petr Pavlu
2025-09-26  0:11           ` Sid Nayyar

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