> OK, short of making IPv4 a module (which would be a worthy task :)
At some point there were patches, it is probably not very difficult.
But DaveM resisted at some point because he didn't want people
to replace the network stack (although I personally don't have a problem
with that)
> do you have an example where a symbol is used by more than one module
> but needs to be put into a namespace?
For SCSI: SD,SR,SG etc.
For Networking: e.g. symbols i put into inet, which are only
used by protocols (sctp, dccp, udplite, ipv6)
I already caught someone doing something wrong with that BTW --
wanrouter clearly does some things it shouldn't be doing.
Or the fib namespace, where all the fib functions should be only
used by the two fib_* modules and ipv6/decnet.
For KVM: the exports used by kvm_amd/intel
For arch/x86: e.g. e820_*, IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector, swiotlb,
a lot of stuff only used by acpi processor.c, pcibios*, etc.etc.
Roland gave another example for Infiniband.
Also in general it allows flexibility later if modules get split.
-Andi
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