Commit 3b1299f2 authored by Siddharth Nayyar's avatar Siddharth Nayyar Committed by Sami Tolvanen
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documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections 



*_gpl sections are no longer present in the kernel binary.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSiddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
parent f1854025

Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst

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@@ -426,11 +426,12 @@ Symbols From the Kernel (vmlinux + modules) 
Version Information Formats

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	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