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Pull module updates from Jessica Yu:
"The most important change would be Christoph Hellwig's patch
implementing proprietary taint inheritance, in an effort to discourage
the creation of GPL "shim" modules that interface between GPL symbols
and proprietary symbols.
Summary:
- Have modules that use symbols from proprietary modules inherit the
TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE taint, in an effort to prevent GPL shim
modules that are used to circumvent _GPL exports. These are modules
that claim to be GPL licensed while also using symbols from
proprietary modules. Such modules will be rejected while non-GPL
modules will inherit the proprietary taint.
- Module export space cleanup. Unexport symbols that are unused
outside of module.c or otherwise used in only built-in code"
* tag 'modules-for-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
modules: inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE
modules: return licensing information from find_symbol
modules: rename the licence field in struct symsearch to license
modules: unexport __module_address
modules: unexport __module_text_address
modules: mark each_symbol_section static
modules: mark find_symbol static
modules: mark ref_module static
modules: linux/moduleparam.h: drop duplicated word in a comment
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.