On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 6:39 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 08:02:40PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > It reserves and disallows imports on any "MODULE_${name}" namespace,
> > while it implicitly adds the same namespace to every module.
>
> Ah nice. This is pretty similar to what I want and had badly prototyped
> a while ago.
>
> > This allows exports targeted at specific modules and no others -- one
> > random example included. I've hated the various kvm exports we've had
> > for a while, and strictly limiting them to the kvm module helps
> > alleviate some abuse potential.
>
> And this was one of the targets on my list. Specific kunits tests
> would be another category.
Indeed. E.g. making the scsi_lib KUnit tests modular would require
exporting an internal symbol[1], which the SCSI maintainers don't like.
[1] "[PATCH] scsi: core: Make scsi_lib KUnit tests modular for real"
https://lore.kernel.org/all/48ca5e827ca420bbdbabb1643e2179dc95c9e0b7.1710849638.git.geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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