On Thursday 22 November 2007 22:46:23 Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thursday 22 November 2007 04:56, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > This is an interesting idea, thanks for the code! My only question
> > is whether we can get most of this benefit by dropping the indirection of
> > namespaces and have something like "EXPORT_SYMBOL_TO(sym, modname)"? It
> > doesn't work so well for exporting to a group of modules, but that seems
> > a reasonable line to draw anyway.
>
> That would explode quickly already even for my example "inet" namespace.
> It already has several modules. I don't think so much duplication would be
> a good idea.
Yes, and if a symbol is already used by multiple modules, it's generically
useful. And if so, why restrict it to in-tree modules?
If your real intent is to bias against out-of-tree modules, let's just
generate a list of in-tree module names, and restrict some or all exports to
that set.
Rusty.
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