On Thursday 22 November 2007 22:05:45 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:56:22PM +1100, 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. > > I'd say exporting to a group of modules is the main use case. E.g. in > scsi there would be symbols exported to transport class modules only > or lots of the vfs_ symbols would be exported only to stackable filesystems > or nfsd.
That's my point. If there's a whole class of modules which can use a symbol, why are we ruling out external modules? If that's what you want, why not have a list of permitted modules compiled into the kernel and allow no others? Cheers, Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
