On Thursday 22 November 2007 22:46:23 Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thursday 22 November 2007 04:56, 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. > > That would explode quickly already even for my example "inet" namespace. > It already has several modules. I don't think so much duplication would be > a good idea.
Yes, and if a symbol is already used by multiple modules, it's generically useful. And if so, why restrict it to in-tree modules? If your real intent is to bias against out-of-tree modules, let's just generate a list of in-tree module names, and restrict some or all exports to that set. Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
