linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] module: various bug-fixes and clean-ups for module namespace

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Date:   Wed, 2 Oct 2019 20:57:02 +0200
From:   Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
To:     Matthias Maennich <maennich@...gle.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] module: various bug-fixes and clean-ups for module
 namespace

+++ Matthias Maennich [27/09/19 14:41 +0100]:
>On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 06:35:56PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>
>>I was hit by some problems caused by the module namespace feature
>>that was merged recently. At least, the breakage of
>>external module builds is a fatal one. I just took a look at the code
>>closer, and I noticed some more issues and improvements.
>>
>>I hope these patches are mostly OK.
>>The 4th patch might have room for argument since it is a trade-off
>>of "cleaner implermentation" vs "code size".
>>
>Thanks Masahiro for taking the time to improve the implementation of the
>symbol namespaces. These are all good points that you addressed!

Agreed, thanks Masahiro for fixing up all the rough edges! Your series
of fixes look good to me, I will queue this up on modules-next this
week with the exception of patch 4 - Matthias, you are planning to
submit a patch that would supercede patch 04/07, right?

Thanks!

Jessica