Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:05:45 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro. |
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:56:22PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > This is an interesting idea, thanks for the code! My only question is > whether we can get most of this benefit by dropping the indirection of > namespaces and have something like "EXPORT_SYMBOL_TO(sym, modname)"? It > doesn't work so well for exporting to a group of modules, but that seems > a reasonable line to draw anyway.
I'd say exporting to a group of modules is the main use case. E.g. in scsi there would be symbols exported to transport class modules only or lots of the vfs_ symbols would be exported only to stackable filesystems or nfsd.
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