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authorMatthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>2019-09-06 11:32:33 +0100
committerJessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>2019-09-10 10:30:49 +0200
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docs: Add documentation for Symbol Namespaces
Describe using Symbol Namespaces from a perspective of a user. I.e. module authors or subsystem maintainers. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
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@@ -594,6 +594,24 @@ internal implementation issue, and not really an interface. Some
maintainers and developers may however require EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
when adding any new APIs or functionality.
+:c:func:`EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS()`
+----------------------------
+
+Defined in ``include/linux/export.h``
+
+This is the variant of `EXPORT_SYMBOL()` that allows specifying a symbol
+namespace. Symbol Namespaces are documented in
+``Documentation/kbuild/namespaces.rst``.
+
+:c:func:`EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL()`
+--------------------------------
+
+Defined in ``include/linux/export.h``
+
+This is the variant of `EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()` that allows specifying a symbol
+namespace. Symbol Namespaces are documented in
+``Documentation/kbuild/namespaces.rst``.
+
Routines and Conventions
========================