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Wed, 29 May 2024 10:48:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface User-Agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.11.0-alpha0-491-g033e30d24-fm-20240520.001-g033e30d2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <3fa493d3-51bb-48bf-b91f-57493be23937@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20240529095009.1895618-1-arnd@kernel.org> <436667b5-308a-4a0b-b66e-230667ce0cc3@app.fastmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 16:48:26 +0200 From: "Arnd Bergmann" To: "Andy Shevchenko" Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" , "Daniel Scally" , "Hans de Goede" , =?UTF-8?Q?Ilpo_J=C3=A4rvinen?= , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: int3472: make common part a separate module Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 29, 2024, at 16:28, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 5:14=E2=80=AFPM Arnd Bergmann = wrote: >> On Wed, May 29, 2024, at 15:41, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >> > On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 12:50=E2=80=AFPM Arnd Bergmann =20 > It's different from the exported namespace. > The function prefixes are needed due to C language, as we can't have > two functions named the same. The export OTOH is what used for linking > modules and if there is no need to have it exported globally, if, for > example, compiling in this one. > > So, can we move to the exported namespace at the same time? Maybe you can come up with a patch then? I have no idea which namespace to use here, seeing that there are already six differnet namespaces in use in drivers/platform/x86/intel/ but none of them seem to be a good fit for this one. Are you asking to just define another namespace here? How would I define what the rules about using this namespace are, and where are they documented? Arnd