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

From: Petr Pavlu
Date: Wed Jun 04 2025 - 04:51:01 EST


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>

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Thanks,
Petr