Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.

Andi Kleen
2007-11-22T11:51:39Z

On Thursday 22 November 2007 04:56, Rusty Russell wrote:

> This is an interesting idea, thanks for the code! My only question is
> whether we can get most of this benefit by dropping the indirection of
> namespaces and have something like "EXPORT_SYMBOL_TO(sym, modname)"? It
> doesn't work so well for exporting to a group of modules, but that seems
> a reasonable line to draw anyway.

That would explode quickly already even for my example "inet" namespace.
It already has several modules. I don't think so much duplication would be a
good idea.

-Andi