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From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier a <nicolas@fjasle.eu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	linux-um@lists.infradead.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/15] modpost: change the license of EXPORT_SYMBOL to bool type
Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 22:48:55 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7LNAREQt5rPGK8zsti_UA-dGFKfqHsVWbSgMLw-yLoeNkJeA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220505072244.1155033-3-masahiroy@kernel.org>

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 4:24 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Currently, enum export is tristate, but export_unknown does not make
> sense in any way.
>
> If the symbol name starts with "__ksymtab_", but the section name
> does not start with "___ksymtab+" or "___ksymtab_gpl+", it is not
> an exported symbol. The variable name just happens to start with
> "__ksymtab_". Do not call sym_add_exported() in this case.
>
> __ksymtab_* is internally by EXPORT_SYMBOL(_GPL) but somebody may

I mean
"... is internally used by ..."




-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-05 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-05  7:22 [PATCH v3 00/15] kbuild: yet another series of cleanups (modpost, LTO, MODULE_REL_CRCS) Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 01/15] modpost: mitigate false-negatives for static EXPORT_SYMBOL checks Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05 19:25   ` Nicolas Schier
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 02/15] modpost: change the license of EXPORT_SYMBOL to bool type Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05 13:48   ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2022-05-05 19:53     ` Nicolas Schier
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 03/15] modpost: merge add_{intree_flag, retpoline, staging_flag} to add_header Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05 19:58   ` [PATCH v3 03/15] modpost: merge add_{intree_flag,retpoline,staging_flag} " Nicolas Schier
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 04/15] modpost: move *.mod.c generation to write_mod_c_files() Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05 20:06   ` Nicolas Schier
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 05/15] kbuild: generate a list of objects in vmlinux Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 06/15] kbuild: record symbol versions in *.cmd files Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 07/15] modpost: extract symbol versions from " Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05 20:09   ` Nicolas Schier
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 08/15] kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 09/15] kbuild: stop merging *.symversions Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05 20:19   ` Nicolas Schier
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 10/15] genksyms: adjust the output format to modpost Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05 20:22   ` Nicolas Schier
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 11/15] kbuild: do not create *.prelink.o for Clang LTO or IBT Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 12/15] modpost: simplify the ->is_static initialization Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05 20:27   ` Nicolas Schier
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 13/15] modpost: use hlist for hash table implementation Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 14/15] kbuild: make built-in.a rule robust against too long argument error Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05 20:29   ` Nicolas Schier
2022-05-05 20:31   ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-05-05  7:22 ` [PATCH v3 15/15] kbuild: make *.mod " Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-05 20:31   ` Nicolas Schier
2022-05-05 16:49 ` [PATCH v3 00/15] kbuild: yet another series of cleanups (modpost, LTO, MODULE_REL_CRCS) Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-06 22:45 ` Nathan Chancellor
2022-05-08 18:28 ` Masahiro Yamada

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