On Fri, 23 Nov 2018, Jessica Yu wrote: > The module loader internally works with both exported symbols > represented as struct kernel_symbol, as well as Elf symbols from a > module's symbol table. It's hard to distinguish sometimes which type of > symbol we're handling given that some helper function names are not > consistent or helpful. Take get_ksymbol() for instance - are we > looking for an exported symbol or a kallsyms symbol here? Or symname() > and kernel_symbol_name() - which function handles an exported symbol and > which one an Elf symbol? > > Clean up and unify the function naming scheme a bit to make it clear > which kind of symbol we're handling. This change only affects static > functions internal to the module loader. > > Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <j...@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbe...@suse.cz> M
