linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add EXPORT_MACRO

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Message-ID: <20161024101450.0da71c93@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:14:50 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add EXPORT_MACRO_SYMBOL() for asm

On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:25:45 +1100
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com> wrote:


> Yes it's grepping for EXPORT_SYMBOL_* I think. If you need to
> create a new name, EXPORT_SYMBOL prefix would be preferred. But
> yeah if you make the standard macro do macro expansion, it
> should just work, no?

Unfortunately, that's not enough. There's some magic in the Makefile
that seems to use the names found in EXPORT_SYMBOL*, which fails when
that name is just a macro to another name.

I'm just going to punt and include both names depending on the config.

-- Steve