Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 1/5] xsplice: Design document.

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 26.10.15 at 13:01, <mpohlack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 16.09.2015 23:01, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> +The convention for file-type symbols (that would allow to map many
>> +symbols to their compilation unit) says that only the basename (i.e.,
>> +without directories) is embedded.  This creates another layer of
>> +confusion for duplicate file names in the build tree.
>> +
>> +That would have to be resolved.
> 
> Another approach here would be to qualify symbol names by the
> object-file name which contains them + a unique path component, for example:
> 
> drivers/pci/pci.o
> arch/x86/pci.o
> arch/x86/x86_64/pci.o

I wouldn't want to do this uniformly. A patch series doing this where
needed has been proposed already:
http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-10/msg02702.html

Jan


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