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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 10/10] RFC: usb-storage: export symbols in USB_STORAGE namespace
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 02:47:08PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 01:17:07PM +0100, Matthias Maennich wrote:
>> Modules using these symbols are required to explicitly import the
>> namespace. This patch was generated with the following steps and serves
>> as a reference to use the symbol namespace feature:
>>
>> 1) Define DDEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE in the corresponding Makefile
>> 2) make (see warnings during modpost about missing imports)
>> 3) make nsdeps
>>
>> Instead of a DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE definition, the EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS
>> variants can be used to explicitly specify the namespace. The advantage
>> of the method used here is that newly added symbols are automatically
>> exported and existing ones are exported without touching their
>> respective EXPORT_SYMBOL macro expansion.
>
>Ok, I can't read text, this answers my previous question.
>
>But, as an example, shouldn't we also have some code here that uses the
>EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() macro to ensure that it actually works?
>
I will create another patch for a different subsystem where the use of
the macros is more appropriate. Then we have both use cases covered.

Cheers,
Matthias

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