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From: Godmar Back <godmar@gmail.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] question regarding global symbols & namespace.pl script
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:09:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <719dced305020115092868918b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <719dced3050201104324e53747@mail.gmail.com>

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FWIW, I followed the advice and asked Matt Domsch on kernelnewbies and
he told me that the module namespaces are *not* intentionally
separated.

Rather, the fact that two modules sometimes define global symbols by
the same name is only an artifact of people testing their kernels in
module-only configurations only where it doesn't show up because
insmod hides unexported global symbols.

Apparently, an option "make allyesconfig" exists that will force all
modules to be compiled with 'y' so that these clashes become apparent.
Not allowing global name clashes is now the official policy of the
kernel maintainers.  I assume that's why namespace.pl was added in
2.6.9.

 - Godmar

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-01 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-01 18:43 [KJ] question regarding global symbols & namespace.pl script Godmar Back
2005-02-01 19:37 ` maximilian attems
2005-02-01 22:41 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-02-01 23:09 ` Godmar Back [this message]
2005-02-02  0:04 ` Godmar Back

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