From: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] module: various bug-fixes and clean-ups for module namespace
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:41:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190927134108.GC187147@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190927093603.9140-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 06:35:56PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>
>I was hit by some problems caused by the module namespace feature
>that was merged recently. At least, the breakage of
>external module builds is a fatal one. I just took a look at the code
>closer, and I noticed some more issues and improvements.
>
>I hope these patches are mostly OK.
>The 4th patch might have room for argument since it is a trade-off
>of "cleaner implermentation" vs "code size".
>
Thanks Masahiro for taking the time to improve the implementation of the
symbol namespaces. These are all good points that you addressed!
For [04/07], I can work on this if you do not mind.
Cheers,
Matthias
>
>Masahiro Yamada (7):
> modpost: fix broken sym->namespace for external module builds
> module: swap the order of symbol.namespace
> module: rename __kstrtab_ns_* to __kstrtabns_* to avoid symbol
> conflict
> module: avoid code duplication in include/linux/export.h
> kbuild: fix build error of 'make nsdeps' in clean tree
> nsdeps: fix hashbang of scripts/nsdeps
> nsdeps: make generated patches independent of locale
>
> Makefile | 2 +-
> include/linux/export.h | 104 ++++++++++++++---------------------------
> kernel/module.c | 2 +-
> scripts/mod/modpost.c | 20 ++++----
> scripts/nsdeps | 4 +-
> 5 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
>
>--
>2.17.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-27 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-27 9:35 [PATCH 0/7] module: various bug-fixes and clean-ups for module namespace Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 9:35 ` [PATCH 1/7] modpost: fix broken sym->namespace for external module builds Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 9:56 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 11:46 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 9:35 ` [PATCH 2/7] module: swap the order of symbol.namespace Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 12:07 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 9:35 ` [PATCH 3/7] module: rename __kstrtab_ns_* to __kstrtabns_* to avoid symbol conflict Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 12:14 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 9:36 ` [PATCH 4/7] module: avoid code duplication in include/linux/export.h Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 9:58 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 11:07 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-09-27 12:36 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-10-29 19:19 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-29 21:11 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-10-31 10:13 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-31 11:03 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-10-31 11:26 ` Jessica Yu
2019-09-27 9:36 ` [PATCH 5/7] kbuild: fix build error of 'make nsdeps' in clean tree Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 12:44 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 9:36 ` [PATCH 6/7] nsdeps: fix hashbang of scripts/nsdeps Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 13:10 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 9:36 ` [PATCH 7/7] nsdeps: make generated patches independent of locale Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 13:27 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-27 15:42 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-27 18:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-09-29 1:18 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-29 1:30 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-10-01 11:46 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-09-29 10:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-09-27 13:41 ` Matthias Maennich [this message]
2019-09-27 15:43 ` [PATCH 0/7] module: various bug-fixes and clean-ups for module namespace Masahiro Yamada
2019-10-02 18:57 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-02 20:43 ` Matthias Maennich
2019-10-03 1:26 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-10-03 8:03 ` Masahiro Yamada
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