linux-kernel - Re: [usb-storage] Re: [PATCH v4 12/12] RFC: watchdog: export core symbols in WATCHDOG

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Date:   Thu, 5 Sep 2019 12:52:32 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
Cc:     Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@...-eyed-alien.net>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Matthias Maennich <maennich@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Cc: Android Kernel" <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
        Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>,
        Sandeep Patil <sspatil@...gle.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-usb <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        USB Mass Storage on Linux 
        <usb-storage@...ts.one-eyed-alien.net>,
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Subject: Re: [usb-storage] Re: [PATCH v4 12/12] RFC: watchdog: export core
 symbols in WATCHDOG_CORE namespace

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 12:41 PM Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org> wrote:
> +++ Matthew Dharm [04/09/19 09:16 -0700]:
> >On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 5:12 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:

> >HOWEVER, I have one question:  If these patches are included, and
> >someone wants to introduce a bit of code which needs to use two
> >symbols from different namespaces but with the same name, can that be
> >done?  That is, if driver A has symbol 'foo' and driver B has symbol
> >'foo' (both in their respective namespaces), and driver C wants to use
> >A.foo and B.foo, can that be supported?
>
> As of now, we currently don't support this - modpost will warn if a
> symbol is exported more than once (across modules + vmlinux), and the
> module loader currently assumes exported symbol names are unique.  Do
> you have a concrete use case? If there is a strong need for this, I
> don't think it'd be too hard to implement.

I think what would prevent this from working in general is that having
two modules with the same exported symbol in different namespaces
won't link if you try to build both modules into the kernel itself.

      Arnd