Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] backports: allow for different backport prefix

Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-11-05T23:16:11Z

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>> You know, this use case seems unavoidable so I'll just proceed with the
>> configurability of it. But note that it seems we're both in agreement
>> that right now what you described requires more work before in any way
>> shape or form folks start using it for the exact purpose you described.
>> I also think Andi Kleen's module namespace might be a much better solution to
>> that problem [0], we'd just have to carry the code ourselves as I am not
>
> Just to clarify. My name spaces didn't really provide different
> name spaces (like C++), it just added a ACL to exports to make it possible
> to do "export only to module N". But the name space itself
> was still flat

Indeed that is how I understood it and the use case in mind for
backporting different subsystems from different future versions of
Linux to an older one might be a use case here (although insane).

> On the linker side doing real name spaces is probably not too hard,
> but it would be difficult for linked in code without special linker
> support.

Good to know, perhaps useful for folks who really do consider
embarking on this strategy with backports (although I don't recommend
it).

>> sure if this is ever going to get upstream as it was originally nacked.
>
> May need to revisit that.

The only thing that was not clear to me from reviewing the module
namespace stuff a while ago was the original intent, but I confess I
actually only looked at the technical details to see if it was
applicable to the backports case, do you recall the original
motivation ?

Luis