Re: [Tux3] Tux3 report: Tux3 Git tree available

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>]

On Thursday 12 March 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
> to be honest the estimate of adding btree directories in 3kLOC
> of code seems very optimistic.

Is that a bet?

> >> This symbol is only supposed to be shared between separate compilation
> >> units within fs/tux3, not be visible outside our module.  How do we do
> >> that?
> >
> > You can't.  Bear in mind that we want the allyesconfig kernel to link
> > and run, and that includes tux3.  So do it manually by prefixing
> > everything with tux3_ or whatever.  (does it need the "3"?)
> 
> AFAIK it could be done by using special linker scripts for the sublinks.
> But I'm not sure it's worth it because that would require listing of the symbols
> in some file. Would need some Makefile magic.
> 
> For modules I also had the "namespace" patches some time ago which implemented
> simple namespace support. Should probably resurrect that.

Per-module name scope would be a nice creature comfort.  Well, for now
the offending names will just get tux_ed.

Regards,

Daniel