linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2 1/7] module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal

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Message-ID: <93a900b2-7740-4bfa-bfac-1ec2e5bfa383@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 22:06:01 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, mcgrof@...nel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, petr.pavlu@...e.com,
	samitolvanen@...gle.com, da.gomez@...sung.com, masahiroy@...nel.org,
	nathan@...nel.org, nicolas@...sle.eu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 1/7] module: Convert symbol namespace to string
 literal

On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 07:20:05PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 11:33:58AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > If we have these kinds of big scripted things, right after the merge
> > window tends to be the best time to do them. The conflict potential of
> > leaving it hanging in linux-next can be somewhat annoying. They may be
> > fairly unlikely, and easy to resolve individually, but it's one of
> > those "one is trivial to deal with, but even just a handful is
> > annoying".

> > So I'll run your script and take your commit message, and we'll have
> > this part over and done with.

> I *think* this is interacting in a fun way with at least the IIO
> subsystem in -next (Linus' tree is fine, I didn't do too much
> investigation as I'd quite like the -next build to finish some time
> today):

Yes, this is breaking ASoC and possibly other things as well.  I guess
any tree adding a new use of these macros needs to merge mainline to
avoid a mess here.

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