Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo

On Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:05:44 +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:

The modules.builtin.modinfo file is used by userspace (kmod to be specific) to
get information about builtin modules. Among other information about the module,
information about module aliases is stored. This is very important to determine
that a particular modalias will be handled by a module that is inside the
kernel.

There are several mechanisms for creating modalias for modules:

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Applied, thanks!

[1/8] s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/8d18ef04f940a
[2/8] kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/0ce5139fd96e9
[3/8] kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/3e86e4d74c049
[4/8] kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/39cfd5b12160b
[5/8] scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/b88f88c26705a
[6/8] modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/83fb49389bbe0
[7/8] modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/5ab23c7923a1d
[8/8] kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/3328d39a8dca2

Best regards,
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Nathan Chancellor [off-list ref]