Update the documentation to include the presense and use case of modules.builtin.alias. Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Allen Webb <allenwebb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst index 5202186728b4..b27c66c3ca9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst @@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ modules.builtin This file lists all modules that are built into the kernel. This is used by modprobe to not fail when trying to load something builtin. +modules.builtin.alias +--------------------- +This file lists all match-id based aliases for modules built into the kernel. +An example usage of the built-in aliases is to enable software such as +USBGuard to allow or block devices outside of just the vendor, product, and +device ID. This enables more flexible security policies in userspace. + modules.builtin.modinfo ----------------------- This file contains modinfo from all modules that are built into the kernel. -- 2.39.2
