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([2001:af0:8000:1409:193:86:92:181]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4ba0951fe22sm54693255e9.3.2026.11.11.02.48.46 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 11 Nov 2026 02:48:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2e392c2b-3fde-42fd-82e0-8130d2de48d2@suse.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:48:45 +0100 X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Remove obsolete __MODULE_STRING() To: Jani Nikula Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck , Guenter Roeck , Ian Abbott , H Hartley Sweeten , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , David Airlie , Simona Vetter , Rudolf Marek , Andi Shyti , Chris Snook , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Tony Nguyen , Przemek Kitszel , =?UTF-8?Q?Marek_Beh=C3=BAn?= , Alexandre Belloni , Andreas Noever , Mika Westerberg , Yehezkel Bernat , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , Duncan Sands , Chas Williams <3chas3@gmail.com>, Luis Chamberlain , Daniel Gomez , Sami Tolvanen , Aaron Tomlin , Wolfram Sang , linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20261002-module-string-v2-0-fc7438acaf4d@suse.com> <2e88806e-57dd-47e0-a9ef-a8507d22aa3e@suse.com> <6c00fc009f4e61e87895eb2dd3d77c5dfb28183d@intel.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Petr Pavlu In-Reply-To: <6c00fc009f4e61e87895eb2dd3d77c5dfb28183d@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/9/26 7:07 PM, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Mon, 09 Nov 2026, Petr Pavlu wrote: >> On 10/14/26 11:36 AM, Petr Pavlu wrote: >>> On 10/2/26 10:31 AM, Petr Pavlu wrote: >>>> __MODULE_STRING() has been an alias for __stringify() since "[PATCH] >>>> MODULE_PARM support for older modules" [1] in 2002-12. That change also >>>> moved it to the graveyard section at the end of linux/module.h >>>> >>>> Replace the remaining uses of __MODULE_STRING() with __stringify() and >>>> remove the macro. >>>> >>>> Apologies for the wide distribution. Acked-bys are appreciated. >>>> >>>> [1] https://git.kernel.org/tglx/history/c/136839a1b4 >>> >>> I've queued the second patch ("drivers: Replace __MODULE_STRING() with >>> __stringify()") on modules-next for v7.4-rc1. Thanks for the Acked-byes >>> and reviews. >>> >>> The first patch ("hwmon: Replace __MODULE_STRING() with __stringify()") >>> should go through the hwmon tree. Once these changes are in mainline, >>> I plan to pick up the final patch ("module: Remove obsolete >>> __MODULE_STRING()"). >> >> v7.4-rc1 no longer contains any __MODULE_STRING() calls, so I've queued >> the final removal in patch 3 on modules-next for 7.5-rc1. > > Perhaps send it for v7.4-rc3 to prevent *new* __MODULE_STRING() users > from cropping up between now and v7.5-rc1? If I need to send an earlier pull request for the module loader, I'll include this patch as well. -- Petr