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Message-ID: <70a410f6-d57b-7586-b645-35d97680ac0b@pengutronix.de>
Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:10:50 +0100
From:   Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:     Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
        Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>,
        dev.kurt@...dijck-laurijssen.be, wg@...ndegger.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        linux-can@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/9] can: af_can: export can_sock_destruct()

On 11/12/19 7:24 PM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/11/2019 12.45, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> Hello Marc,
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:39:27PM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>>> On 11/12/19 12:37 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:15:52PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
>>>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(can_sock_destruct);
>>>>
>>>> If the users are only expected to be another can module, it might make
>>>> sense to use a namespace here?!
>>>
>>> How?
>>
>> Use
>>
>> 	EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(can_sock_destruct, CAN)
>>
>> instead of the plain EXPORT_SYMBOL, and near the declaration of
>> can_sock_destruct or in the source that makes use of the symbol add:
>>
>> 	MODULE_IMPORT_NS(CAN);
>>
>> See https://lwn.net/Articles/760045/ for some details.
> 
> Looks nice! Good idea!
> 
> But I would tend to introduce the symbol namespaces for this and the 
> other (existing) symbols via can-next and not within this patch set that 
> addresses the j1939 fixes.

So I should take this series as is?

And the CAN namespace is introduced later?

Marc

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