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    SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.
    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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