Re: [usb-storage] Re: [PATCH v4 12/12] RFC: watchdog: export core symbols in WATCHDOG_CORE namespace

+++ Arnd Bergmann [05/09/19 12:52 +0200]:

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On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 12:41 PM Jessica Yu [off-list ref] wrote:

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+++ Matthew Dharm [04/09/19 09:16 -0700]:

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On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 5:12 AM Guenter Roeck [off-list ref] wrote:

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HOWEVER, I have one question:  If these patches are included, and
someone wants to introduce a bit of code which needs to use two
symbols from different namespaces but with the same name, can that be
done?  That is, if driver A has symbol 'foo' and driver B has symbol
'foo' (both in their respective namespaces), and driver C wants to use
A.foo and B.foo, can that be supported?

As of now, we currently don't support this - modpost will warn if a
symbol is exported more than once (across modules + vmlinux), and the
module loader currently assumes exported symbol names are unique.  Do
you have a concrete use case? If there is a strong need for this, I
don't think it'd be too hard to implement.

I think what would prevent this from working in general is that having
two modules with the same exported symbol in different namespaces
won't link if you try to build both modules into the kernel itself.

     Arnd

Ah yeah, you are right. I only tried building an identically named
exported symbol in a module and in the kernel, and there I got away
with a modpost warning. But this breaks when building the module into
the kernel, so I guess this is out of the question.

Thanks,

Jessica