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From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] modules: add modalias file to sysfs for modules.
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 04:43:13PM -0600, Allen Webb wrote:
> This information is readily available for external modules in
> modules.alias. However, builtin kernel modules are not covered.

Why add this into the kernel instead of just a modules.builtin.alias
or something like that?

  Luis