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Summary of modules changes for the 5.4 merge window: - Introduce exported symbol namespaces. This new feature allows subsystem maintainers to partition and categorize their exported symbols into explicit namespaces. Module authors are now required to import the namespaces they need. Some of the main motivations of this feature include: allowing kernel developers to better manage the export surface, allow subsystem maintainers to explicitly state that usage of some exported symbols should only be limited to certain users (think: inter-module or inter-driver symbols, debugging symbols, etc), as well as more easily limiting the availability of namespaced symbols to other parts of the kernel. With the module import requirement, it is also easier to spot the misuse of exported symbols during patch review. Two new macros are introduced: EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(). The API is thoroughly documented in Documentation/kbuild/namespaces.rst. - Some small code and kbuild cleanups here and there. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABCgAGBQJdh3n8AAoJEMBFfjjOO8Fy94kP+QHZF39QDvLbxAzEYAETAS+o CFu6wix/DrAwFkTU/kX1eAsAwDBEz0xkMciR4BsLX3sIafUVERxtDXVAui/dA1+6 zfw2c3ObyVwPEk6aUPFprgkj+08gxujsJFlYTsQQUhtRbmxg6R7hD6t6ANxiHaY2 AQe5TzOWXoIa2hHO+7rPMqf8l6qiFCaL0s3v5jrmBXa5mHmc4PVy95h1J6xQVw2u b+SlvKeylHv+OtCtvthkAJS3hfS35J/1TNb/RNYIvh60IfEguEuFsGuQ9JiSSAZS pv1cJ+I5d4v8Y/md1rZpdjTJL9gCrq/UUC67+UkejCOn0C+7XM2eR4Bu/jWvdMSn ZQDHcPhFSIfmP7FaKomPogaBbw1sI1FvM5930pPJzHnyO9+cefBXe7rWaaB+y0At GAxOtmk1dKh01BT7YO/C0oVuX87csWd74NHypVsbs0TgQo5jBFdZRheyDrq5YB+s tVK+5H0nqQrCcfo/TvhcsZlgITTGtgTPenaW99/i7qNa9mRUtxC/VkE+aob6HNRF 1iBxxopOTxGN8akyKOVumtkuTQH3EJfouZee//pWbXLzyDmScg/k67vuao8kxbyq NA1piFAGJAHFsHATxrbvNOq6jZ5bfUT8pwSTs83JppuR++8Hxk7zaShS3/LvsvHt 6ist/epOwTZ7oiNQ04nj =72Uy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'modules-for-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux Pull modules updates from Jessica Yu: "The main bulk of this pull request introduces a new exported symbol namespaces feature. The number of exported symbols is increasingly growing with each release (we're at about 31k exports as of 5.3-rc7) and we currently have no way of visualizing how these symbols are "clustered" or making sense of this huge export surface. Namespacing exported symbols allows kernel developers to more explicitly partition and categorize exported symbols, as well as more easily limiting the availability of namespaced symbols to other parts of the kernel. For starters, we have introduced the USB_STORAGE namespace to demonstrate the API's usage. I have briefly summarized the feature and its main motivations in the tag below. Summary: - Introduce exported symbol namespaces. This new feature allows subsystem maintainers to partition and categorize their exported symbols into explicit namespaces. Module authors are now required to import the namespaces they need. Some of the main motivations of this feature include: allowing kernel developers to better manage the export surface, allow subsystem maintainers to explicitly state that usage of some exported symbols should only be limited to certain users (think: inter-module or inter-driver symbols, debugging symbols, etc), as well as more easily limiting the availability of namespaced symbols to other parts of the kernel. With the module import requirement, it is also easier to spot the misuse of exported symbols during patch review. Two new macros are introduced: EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(). The API is thoroughly documented in Documentation/kbuild/namespaces.rst. - Some small code and kbuild cleanups here and there" * tag 'modules-for-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux: module: Remove leftover '#undef' from export header module: remove unneeded casts in cmp_name() module: move CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS to the sub-menu of MODULES module: remove redundant 'depends on MODULES' module: Fix link failure due to invalid relocation on namespace offset usb-storage: export symbols in USB_STORAGE namespace usb-storage: remove single-use define for debugging docs: Add documentation for Symbol Namespaces scripts: Coccinelle script for namespace dependencies. modpost: add support for generating namespace dependencies export: allow definition default namespaces in Makefiles or sources module: add config option MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS modpost: add support for symbol namespaces module: add support for symbol namespaces. export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol module: support reading multiple values per modinfo tag
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