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Subject: [Bug default/28954] add Linux Kernel symbol namespace support
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D28954

--- Comment #2 from gprocida at google dot com ---
Hi,

(In reply to Ben Woodard from comment #1)
> I=E2=80=99m a little confused by this the LKM name spacing doesn=E2=80=99=
t seem to use any
> of the symbol mangling that C++ does. From the links that you posted it
> seems like the way that the kernel mangles these names is simply by putti=
ng
> =E2=80=9C.<subsystem>=E2=80=9D into the ELF linkage name. This confuses m=
e because, I would
> think that this change in linkage name would show up in ABI reports but y=
our
> bug description below suggests that it doesn=E2=80=99t. I must be missing=
 something.

I was confused too. It looks like that part of the scheme never happened,
probably because it was both redundant and too intrusive.

Instead we need to chase __kstrtabns_FOO to a string table entry.

Giuliano.

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