Re: [PATCH v3 10/11] RFC: usb-storage: export symbols in USB_STORAGE namespace

[Jessica Yu]

+++ Greg KH [21/08/19 05:38 -0700]:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:49:25PM +0100, Matthias Maennich wrote:
> > Modules using these symbols are required to explicitly import the
> > namespace. This patch was generated with the following steps and serves
> > as a reference to use the symbol namespace feature:
> >
> >  1) Define DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE in the corresponding Makefile
> >  2) make  (see warnings during modpost about missing imports)
> >  3) make nsdeps
> >
> > Instead of a DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE definition, the EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS
> > variants can be used to explicitly specify the namespace. The advantage
> > of the method used here is that newly added symbols are automatically
> > exported and existing ones are exported without touching their
> > respective EXPORT_SYMBOL macro expansion.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This looks good to me.  This can be included with the rest of this
> series when/if it goes through the kbuild or module tree:
>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Actually, which tree will this be going through?

I would be happy to take the patchset through the modules tree once it
collects the appropriate ack/reviewed-by's and once I get a chance to
sit down and review/test it next week :)

Thanks!

Jessica