On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 08:57:24PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Petr Mladek wrote: > > > Also I would omit the suffix at all when it is the first occurrence. It > > will cause that unique symbols will not be numbered. > > That'd mean that the names (including suffixes) are not stable, because a > particular name that has originally been unique can later be made > non-unique when module brings in a conflicting name. The numbering (and uniqueness) is per-object, so the same symbol name from another module would live in a separate namespace and wouldn't create a conflict. -- Josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html