From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: af_unix.c, KBUILD_MODNAME and unix
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:52:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050320135207.A12839@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aec7e5c305032005451899b18b@mail.gmail.com>; from magnus.damm@gmail.com on Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 02:45:36PM +0100
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 02:45:36PM +0100, Magnus Damm wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> af_unix.c is currenty built with KBUILD_MODNAME=unix. This seems to
> work rather well today, but if someone actually tries to use
> KBUILD_MODNAME then they will end up with a preprocessor surprise:
> KBUILD_MODNAME -> unix -> 1, because "unix" is defined to 1.
>
> With other words, if someone adds module_param(foo,...) code to
> af_unix.c and compiles the code as built in then they will have to use
> "1.foo" to set the variable instead of "unix.foo" as expected.
>
> Solution? #undef unix?
or maybe -Uunix ?
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-20 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-20 13:45 af_unix.c, KBUILD_MODNAME and unix Magnus Damm
2005-03-20 13:52 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-03-20 14:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-20 15:52 ` Magnus Damm
2005-03-20 21:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
[not found] <fa.jj4t62d.1j5ccif@ifi.uio.no>
2005-03-20 20:21 ` Bodo Eggert
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