On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 01:17:07PM +0100, Matthias Maennich wrote: > Modules using these symbols are required to explicitly import the > namespace. This patch was generated with the following steps and serves > as a reference to use the symbol namespace feature: > > 1) Define DDEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE in the corresponding Makefile > 2) make (see warnings during modpost about missing imports) > 3) make nsdeps > > Instead of a DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE definition, the EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS > variants can be used to explicitly specify the namespace. The advantage > of the method used here is that newly added symbols are automatically > exported and existing ones are exported without touching their > respective EXPORT_SYMBOL macro expansion. Ok, I can't read text, this answers my previous question. But, as an example, shouldn't we also have some code here that uses the EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() macro to ensure that it actually works? thanks, greg k-h
