Re: af_unix.c, KBUILD_MODNAME and unix

[Russell King]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 02:45:36PM +0100, Magnus Damm wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> af_unix.c is currenty built with KBUILD_MODNAME=unix. This seems to
> work rather well today, but if someone actually tries to use
> KBUILD_MODNAME then they will end up with a preprocessor surprise:
> KBUILD_MODNAME -> unix -> 1, because "unix" is defined to 1.
> 
> With other words, if someone adds module_param(foo,...) code to
> af_unix.c and compiles the code as built in then they will have to use
> "1.foo" to set the variable instead of "unix.foo" as expected.
> 
> Solution? #undef unix?

or maybe -Uunix ?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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