Re: [PATCH] module: make __mod_device_table__* symbols static

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On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 6/2/25 12:55 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > The __mod_device_table__* symbols are only parsed by modpost to generate
> > MODULE_ALIAS() entries from MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE().
> >
> > Therefore, these symbols do not need to be globally visible, or globally
> > unique.
> >
> > If they are in the global scope, we would worry about the symbol
> > uniqueness, but modpost is fine with parsing multiple symbols with the
> > same name.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Petr
>


Applied to linux-kbuild

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada





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