From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB84AC6FD1C for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:08:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229660AbjCWXI0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:08:26 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38598 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229484AbjCWXIZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:08:25 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4641:c500::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 331E2769F for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:08:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B9A26628EE for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A9CDFC433D2; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:08:22 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:08:21 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Nick Alcock Cc: Luis Chamberlain , linux-modules Subject: Re: module_license tree refreshed against linux-next Message-ID: <20230323190821.38b9c5af@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <87v8irmcet.fsf@esperi.org.uk> References: <87mt46s8i3.fsf@esperi.org.uk> <87r0tiqc6z.fsf@esperi.org.uk> <87zg83mn75.fsf@esperi.org.uk> <20230323160022.2e4331e9@gandalf.local.home> <87v8irmcet.fsf@esperi.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.8 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 20:38:02 +0000 Nick Alcock wrote: > Oh the name is dreadful! Better name suggestions much appreciated. And kernel developers are notorious at picking bad names. > > > Perhaps "sym-file" ? > > ... Yes, except that it also decorates with built-in module names. > > > Or does this happen only when there's more than one function? Either way, > > let's try to come up with something other than "sym-unambiguous". > > It happens only when at least one symbol in a given (object file * > built-in module) pair would be ambiguous with respect to some other > symbol with the same name without being given at least one of those two. > It's a bit hard to pack into a couple of words... sym-unique is even > worse, sym-objname is deeply unclear (what's an objname?) sym-filenames > maybe? The question really is what property users care about, and I was > hoping it would be that with this option turned on you can always tell > all symbols apart from all other symbols. sym-nodups ? sym-differentiate ? I don't think sym-unique is worse than sym-unambigous We could always put this question out to social media. -- Steve