linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] module.h: define __symbol_get_gpl() as a regular __symbol

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Message-ID: <65cbe0ee.050a0220.1c11e.d156@mx.google.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:10:45 +0300
From: Andrew Kanner <andrew.kanner@...il.com>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mchehab@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] module.h: define __symbol_get_gpl() as a regular
 __symbol_get()

On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 10:13:54AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> 
> While you're at it, if you want to try it, you could see if you can
> improve the situation more by looking at symbol_get() users that remain
> and seeing if you can instead fix it with proper Kconfig dependency and
> at build time. Then we can just remove it as well.
> 
>   Luis

Sorry for the late reply.

Luis, can you give more details of your idea? I re-read it once, then
came back and still don't understand.

I see that there are ~10 users for symbol_get() currently. Do you want
to stringify symbol names at build time to completely remove
symbol_get() from module.h? Correct me if I'm wrong since using of a
fuction which is not declared anywhere sounds confusing.

-- 
Andrew Kanner