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Message-Id: <200711221246.23994.ak@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:46:23 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.
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.
-Andi
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