[PATCH v5 7/7] documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections
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From: Siddharth Nayyar <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-26 21:25:33
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linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-kbuild, lkml
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documentation, kernel build + files below scripts/ (unless maintained elsewhere), the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Nathan Chancellor, Nicolas Schier, Linus Torvalds
Revision v5 of 7 in this series.
Revisions (7)
*_gpl sections are no longer present in the kernel binary. Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <redacted> --- Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
index d0703605bfa4..b3a26a36ee17 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst@@ -426,11 +426,12 @@ 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, - 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. + Exported symbols have information stored in the __ksymtab and + __kflagstab sections. 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 section. If CONFIG_BASIC_MODVERSIONS is enabled (default with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS), imported symbols will have their symbol name and
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