From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add EXPORT_MACRO_SYMBOL() for asm
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:14:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161024101450.0da71c93@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161024122545.55539e53@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:25:45 +1100
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes it's grepping for EXPORT_SYMBOL_* I think. If you need to
> create a new name, EXPORT_SYMBOL prefix would be preferred. But
> yeah if you make the standard macro do macro expansion, it
> should just work, no?
Unfortunately, that's not enough. There's some magic in the Makefile
that seems to use the names found in EXPORT_SYMBOL*, which fails when
that name is just a macro to another name.
I'm just going to punt and include both names depending on the config.
-- Steve
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-24 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-21 16:17 Steven Rostedt
2016-10-21 23:44 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-22 19:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-10-24 1:25 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-24 14:14 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
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