There are lots of new global symbols created by this module. Since C has no namespaces, a kernel module needs to in general stick to one prefix and naming convention.
$ nm openvswitch.ko | grep -v ' U ' | grep -v ' [btrd] ' 0000000000000000 D __this_module 00000000000028c6 T cleanup_module 0000000000001fe6 T dp_detach_port 0000000000000540 D dp_device_notifier 0000000000001cb5 T dp_name 0000000000002438 T dp_process_received_packet 00000000000023ae T dp_upcall 0000000000000000 D dp_vport_multicast_group 0000000000000774 T execute_actions 0000000000002c3a T flow_actions_alloc 0000000000002c9f T flow_alloc 0000000000002edf T flow_deferred_free 0000000000002ef6 T flow_deferred_free_acts 0000000000004310 T flow_exit 0000000000002f0d T flow_extract 0000000000002e1c T flow_free 00000000000039d9 T flow_from_nlattrs 0000000000003790 T flow_hash 00000000000042c7 T flow_init 0000000000003dfa T flow_metadata_from_nlattrs 0000000000002cde T flow_tbl_alloc 0000000000002d94 T flow_tbl_deferred_destroy 0000000000002e60 T flow_tbl_destroy 0000000000003936 T flow_tbl_expand 00000000000038ed T flow_tbl_insert 0000000000003873 T flow_tbl_lookup 0000000000002db4 T flow_tbl_next 00000000000039b6 T flow_tbl_remove 0000000000003e99 T flow_to_nlattrs 0000000000002bad T flow_used 0000000000002b5f T flow_used_time 0000000000000000 T init_module 0000000000004baa T internal_dev_get_vport 0000000000000270 R internal_vport_ops 0000000000004b8f T is_internal_dev 0000000000004bde T netdev_get_ifindex 0000000000004bcc T netdev_get_name 0000000000004e22 T netdev_get_vport 0000000000000510 R netdev_vport_ops 0000000000000220 R ovs_key_lens 0000000000002523 T ovs_vport_cmd_build_info 00000000000044c7 T vport_add 000000000000441b T vport_alloc 00000000000045c9 T vport_del 00000000000043b3 T vport_exit 00000000000044a2 T vport_free 00000000000046ce T vport_get_options 000000000000462d T vport_get_stats 000000000000438e T vport_init 00000000000043ca T vport_locate 000000000000476d T vport_receive 00000000000047de T vport_record_error 000000000000479e T vport_send 0000000000004572 T vport_set_options I recommend that all non-static functions an data be prefixed with one string (like ovs_). _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
