diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst index 32fc73dc5529..034898e81ba2 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst @@ -76,20 +76,21 @@ unit as preprocessor statement. The above example would then read:: within the corresponding compilation unit before the #include for <linux/export.h>. Typically it's placed before the first #include statement. -Using the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro ------------------------------------------------ +Using the EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES() macro +------------------------------------------- Symbols exported using this macro are put into a module namespace. This -namespace cannot be imported. +namespace cannot be imported. These exports are GPL-only as they are only +intended for in-tree modules. The macro takes a comma separated list of module names, allowing only those modules to access this symbol. Simple tail-globs are supported. For example:: - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES(preempt_notifier_inc, "kvm,kvm-*") + EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(preempt_notifier_inc, "kvm,kvm-*") -will limit usage of this symbol to modules whoes name matches the given +will limit usage of this symbol to modules whose name matches the given patterns. How to use Symbols exported in Namespaces |