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documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections

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

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

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Siddharth Nayyar and committed by
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Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
··· 426 426 Version Information Formats 427 427 --------------------------- 428 428 429 - Exported symbols have information stored in __ksymtab or __ksymtab_gpl 430 - sections. Symbol names and namespaces are stored in __ksymtab_strings, 431 - using a format similar to the string table used for ELF. If 432 - CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is enabled, the CRCs corresponding to exported 433 - symbols will be added to the __kcrctab or __kcrctab_gpl. 429 + Exported symbols have information stored in the __ksymtab and 430 + __kflagstab sections. Symbol names and namespaces are stored in 431 + __ksymtab_strings section, using a format similar to the string 432 + table used for ELF. If CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is enabled, the CRCs 433 + corresponding to exported symbols will be added to the 434 + __kcrctab section. 434 435 435 436 If CONFIG_BASIC_MODVERSIONS is enabled (default with 436 437 CONFIG_MODVERSIONS), imported symbols will have their symbol name and