On 5/9/25 18:42, Alexey Gladkov wrote: > For some modules, modalias is generated using the modpost utility and > the section is added to the module file. > > When a module is added inside vmlinux, modpost does not generate > modalias for such modules and the information is lost. > > As a result kmod (which uses modules.builtin.modinfo in userspace) > cannot determine that modalias is handled by a builtin kernel module. > > $ cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/modalias > pci:v00008086d0000A36Dsv00001043sd00008694bc0Csc03i30 > > $ modinfo xhci_pci > name: xhci_pci > filename: (builtin) > license: GPL > file: drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci > description: xHCI PCI Host Controller Driver > > Missing modalias "pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc0Csc03i30*" which will be generated by > modpost if the module is built separately. > > To fix this it is necessary to generate the same modalias for vmlinux as > for the individual modules. Fortunately '.vmlinux.export.o' is already > generated from which '.modinfo' can be extracted in the same way as for > vmlinux.o. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx> -- Petr
