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On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 10:12:42 +0200
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> wrote:

> This was my line of thought as well, since the audience of
> admin-guide/ is sysadmins and users. Namespaces are mostly relevant to
> module authors and kernel developers. Currently, I don't think there
> is an existing good place in Documentation/ for this topic :-/
> I suppose kernel-hacking/ might be the closest fit, as Adam suggested.

I didn't see this thread before responding in the first, naturally...  

I think the core-api manual is probably as good a place as any for this.
Changing the name to something like symbol-namespaces.rst is probably a
good idea, since most people think of other things when they see
"namespaces".  Or perhaps that mythical Somebody could expand it into a
proper description of symbol exports in general...:)

Thanks,

jon