netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: add EXPORT_IPV6

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Message-ID: <67aa467cdb521_6ea2129452@willemb.c.googlers.com.notmuch>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:33:32 -0500
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
 "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
 Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, 
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, 
 eric.dumazet@...il.com, 
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: add EXPORT_IPV6_MOD()

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> In this series I am adding EXPORT_IPV6_MOD and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL()
> so that we can replace some EXPORT_SYMBOL() when IPV6 is
> not modular.
> 
> This is making all the selected symbols internal to core
> linux networking.

Is the goal to avoid use by external code, similar to the recent
addition of namespacified internal network exports with
EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL( , "NETDEV_INTERNAL")?