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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst index 27a9cccc792c..473d025657fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst @@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ entries. In addition to the macros EXPORT_SYMBOL() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), that allow exporting of kernel symbols to the kernel symbol table, variants of these are available to export symbols into a certain namespace: EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and -EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(). They take one additional argument: the namespace. -Please note that due to macro expansion that argument needs to be a -preprocessor symbol. E.g. to export the symbol ``usb_stor_suspend`` into the +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(). They take one additional argument: the namespace as a +string constant. Note that this string must not contain whitespaces. +E.g. to export the symbol ``usb_stor_suspend`` into the namespace ``USB_STORAGE``, use:: EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(usb_stor_suspend, "USB_STORAGE"); |