From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro. Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:12:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20071127141242.GA26794@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20071127105016.GC24223@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andi Kleen , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, rdreier@cisco.com, ak@suse.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:56894 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754295AbXK0OMr (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:12:47 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > OK, short of making IPv4 a module (which would be a worthy task :) At some point there were patches, it is probably not very difficult. But DaveM resisted at some point because he didn't want people to replace the network stack (although I personally don't have a problem with that) > do you have an example where a symbol is used by more than one module > but needs to be put into a namespace? For SCSI: SD,SR,SG etc. For Networking: e.g. symbols i put into inet, which are only used by protocols (sctp, dccp, udplite, ipv6) I already caught someone doing something wrong with that BTW -- wanrouter clearly does some things it shouldn't be doing. Or the fib namespace, where all the fib functions should be only used by the two fib_* modules and ipv6/decnet. For KVM: the exports used by kvm_amd/intel For arch/x86: e.g. e820_*, IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector, swiotlb, a lot of stuff only used by acpi processor.c, pcibios*, etc.etc. Roland gave another example for Infiniband. Also in general it allows flexibility later if modules get split. -Andi