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

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From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 8:37 pm

> I like this concept in general; I have one minor comment; right now

That wouldn't work for MODULE_ALLOW() because it appends the namespace
to other identifiers. I don't know of a way in the C processor to get
back from a string to a ## concatenable identifier.

For EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS it would be in theory possible, but making 
it asymmetric to MODULE_ALLOW would be ugly imho.

-Andi
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[PATCH RFC] [8/9] Put UDP exports into a namespace, Andi Kleen, (Wed Nov 21, 7:43 pm)
[PATCH RFC] [9/9] Add a inet namespace, Andi Kleen, (Wed Nov 21, 7:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code a ..., Andi Kleen, (Wed Nov 21, 8:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code a ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Nov 22, 4:05 am)
Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code a ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Nov 22, 4:06 am)
Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code a ..., Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, (Thu Nov 22, 5:01 am)
Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code a ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Nov 22, 5:03 am)
Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code a ..., Stephen Hemminger, (Mon Nov 26, 11:25 am)
Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code a ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Nov 27, 9:33 am)
Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code a ..., Stephen Hemminger, (Tue Nov 27, 4:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH RFC] [4/9] modpost: Fix format string warnings, Sam Ravnborg, (Mon Dec 10, 11:50 am)