On Monday 26 November 2007 07:27:03 Roland Dreier wrote: > > This patch allows to export symbols only for specific modules by > > introducing symbol name spaces. A module name space has a white > > list of modules that are allowed to import symbols for it; all others > > can't use the symbols. > > > > It adds two new macros: > > > > MODULE_NAMESPACE_ALLOW(namespace, module); > > I definitely like the idea of organizing exported symbols into > namespaces. However, I feel like it would make more sense to have > something like > > MODULE_NAMESPACE_IMPORT(namespace);
Except C doesn't have namespaces and this mechanism doesn't create them. So this is just complete and utter makework; as I said before, noone's going to confuse all those udp_* functions if they're not in the udp namespace. For better or worse, this is not C++. Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
