On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 8:34 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 04:43:13PM -0600, Allen Webb wrote: > > This information is readily available for external modules in > > modules.alias. However, builtin kernel modules are not covered. > > Why add this into the kernel instead of just a modules.builtin.alias > or something like that? > > Luis I am fine with that approach and already have a PoC for it. Here are some considerations: * This would add a new file to the kernel packaging requirements. * It is easier for separate files to get out of sync with the runtime state (this isn't really a big deal because we already have to deal with it for modules.alias)