linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: int3472: make common part a separate module

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Message-Id: <3fa493d3-51bb-48bf-b91f-57493be23937@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 16:48:26 +0200
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Andy Shevchenko" <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...nel.org>, "Daniel Scally" <djrscally@...il.com>,
 "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
 Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
 platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: int3472: make common part a separate module

On Wed, May 29, 2024, at 16:28, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 5:14 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 29, 2024, at 15:41, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 12:50 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nelorg> 
> It's different from the exported namespace.
> The function prefixes are needed due to C language, as we can't have
> two functions named the same. The export OTOH is what used for linking
> modules and if there is no need to have it exported globally, if, for
> example, compiling in this one.
>
> So, can we move to the exported namespace at the same time?

Maybe you can come up with a patch then? I have no idea
which namespace to use here, seeing that there are already
six differnet namespaces in use in drivers/platform/x86/intel/
but none of them seem to be a good fit for this one.

Are you asking to just define another namespace here?
How would I define what the rules about using this namespace
are, and where are they documented?

     Arnd