On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:56:22PM +1100, 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.
I'd say exporting to a group of modules is the main use case. E.g. in scsi there would be symbols exported to transport class modules only or lots of the vfs_ symbols would be exported only to stackable filesystems or nfsd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
