Re: [PATCH] modpost: drop '*_probe' from section check whitelist

From: Nathan Chancellor

Date: Tue Dec 16 2025 - 08:31:08 EST


On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:16:13 +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Several symbol patterns used to be whitelisted to allow drivers to refer
> to functions annotated with __devinit and __devexit, which have since
> been removed.
>
> Commit e1dc1bfe5b27 ("modpost: remove more symbol patterns from the
> section check whitelist") removed most of these patterns but left
> '*_probe' after a reported warning in an irqchip driver.
>
> [...]

Applied to

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux.git kbuild-next

Thanks!

[1/1] modpost: drop '*_probe' from section check whitelist
https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/a4df2071f1a2b

Please look out for regression or issue reports or other follow up
comments, as they may result in the patch/series getting dropped or
reverted.

Best regards,
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Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>