linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rename net

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Date:	Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:41:54 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@....hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rename net_random to random32

> EXPORT_SYMBOL's in lib-y are latent bugs (IMHO kbuild should error
> on them):

In practice module will not load becasue it cannot resolve symbol - right?

That aside we should not export symbols from lib-y. But I have not any good
idea how to catch this during build time unles doing some ugly grep magic.

One thing that could be done would be to check for a specific section
(__ksymtab_strings) in the .o file only for lib-y .o files.

The check could be something like:
objdump -h <file.o> | grep __ksymtab_strings

If grep give error code '0' then we exported a symbol.
I may try to cook up later this weekend.

        Sam

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