[PATCH v9 10/10] docs: Include modules.builtin.alias
From: Allen Webb <hidden>
Date: 2022-12-19 20:47:36
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documentation, kernel build + files below scripts/ (unless maintained elsewhere), the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Nathan Chancellor, Nicolas Schier, Linus Torvalds
Update the documentation to include the presense and use case of modules.builtin.alias. Signed-off-by: Allen Webb <redacted> --- Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
index 08f575e6236c..1c7c02040a54 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ modules.builtin This file lists all modules that are built into the kernel. This is used by modprobe to not fail when trying to load something builtin. +modules.builtin.alias +--------------------- +This file lists all match-id based aliases for modules built into the kernel. +These are intended to enable userspace to make authorization decisions based +on which modules are likely to be bound to a device after it is authorized. + modules.builtin.modinfo ----------------------- This file contains modinfo from all modules that are built into the kernel.
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