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Matthias Maennich cb9b55d21f modpost: add support for symbol namespaces
Add support for symbols that are exported into namespaces. For that,
extract any namespace suffix from the symbol name. In addition, emit a
warning whenever a module refers to an exported symbol without
explicitly importing the namespace that it is defined in. This patch
consistently adds the namespace suffix to symbol names exported into
Module.symvers.

Example warning emitted by modpost in case of the above violation:

 WARNING: module ums-usbat uses symbol usb_stor_resume from namespace
 USB_STORAGE, but does not import it.

Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
2019-09-10 10:30:21 +02:00
Documentation modpost: add support for symbol namespaces 2019-09-10 10:30:21 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol 2019-09-10 10:30:09 +02:00
block block: remove REQ_NOWAIT_INLINE 2019-08-15 11:09:16 -06:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto USB / PHY patches for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-11 15:40:06 -07:00
drivers Char/Misc driver fixes for 5.3-rc7 2019-09-02 09:30:34 -07:00
fs a few small SMB3 fixes, and a larger one to fix various older string handling functions 2019-08-29 17:51:23 -07:00
include module: add support for symbol namespaces. 2019-09-10 10:30:17 +02:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
kernel module: add support for symbol namespaces. 2019-09-10 10:30:17 +02:00
lib Partially revert "kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() and kfifo_init()" 2019-08-30 18:47:15 -07:00
mm mm: memcontrol: fix percpu vmstats and vmevents flush 2019-08-30 18:00:50 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-09-01 18:45:28 -07:00
samples auxdisplay: Fix a typo in cfag12864b-example.c 2019-08-08 20:00:18 +02:00
scripts modpost: add support for symbol namespaces 2019-09-10 10:30:21 +02:00
security keys: ensure that ->match_free() is called in request_key_and_link() 2019-08-30 11:10:55 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.3-rc7 2019-08-27 10:42:03 -07:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-09-01 18:45:28 -07:00
usr kbuild: enable arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/zcrypt.h for uapi header test 2019-07-23 10:45:46 +02:00
virt arm64 fixes for -rc7 2019-08-28 10:37:21 -07:00
.clang-format Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-17 11:26:25 -07:00
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.mailmap mailmap: add aliases for Dmitry Safonov 2019-08-30 18:00:50 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Remove references to dead website. 2019-07-19 12:22:04 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Char/Misc driver fixes for 5.3-rc7 2019-09-02 09:30:34 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.3-rc7 2019-09-02 09:57:40 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.