Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 14:06:08 -0600
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
        Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>,
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        Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.com>,
        linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: old_name.number scheme in livepatch sysfs
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On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 08:57:24PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Petr Mladek wrote:
> 
> > Also I would omit the suffix at all when it is the first occurrence. It 
> > will cause that unique symbols will not be numbered.
> 
> That'd mean that the names (including suffixes) are not stable, because a 
> particular name that has originally been unique can later be made 
> non-unique when module brings in a conflicting name.

The numbering (and uniqueness) is per-object, so the same symbol name
from another module would live in a separate namespace and wouldn't
create a conflict.

-- 
Josh
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