Re: [PATCH 0/7] module: various bug-fixes and clean-ups for module namespace

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Wed Oct 02 2019 - 21:27:18 EST


H Jessica,

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 3:57 AM Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> +++ Matthias Maennich [27/09/19 14:41 +0100]:
> >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!
>
> Agreed, thanks Masahiro for fixing up all the rough edges! Your series
> of fixes look good to me, I will queue this up on modules-next this
> week

Since these are bug fixes,
please send them before v5.4.

Thanks.



> with the exception of patch 4 - Matthias, you are planning to
> submit a patch that would supercede patch 04/07, right?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jessica



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada