Re: [PATCH] modules: add default loader hook implementations

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Monday 27 June 2011, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> I don't care much either way, you would get my Ack for both solutions.
> >> The __weak approach would definitely make a simpler patch, and the
> >> patch you sent adds extra complexity because of the
> >> asm_generic_moduleloader_hooks macro you used to avoid having to
> >> change all other architectures.
> >
> > I think you misread me.  If all else is equal, I dislike weak functions.
> > But AFAICT the two standard mechanisms are #ifdef HAVE_ARCH and __weak.
> > Inventing a third one is not going to be a win.
> 
> It's not inventing a new one, the third one is already in use.

True. In fact, we are (slowly) migrating away from HAVE_ARCH_* elsewhere.
In include/asm-generic/*.h, the common method is now to #define the exact
symbol if an architecture wants to override the generic version.

Weak symbols are fairly obscure in comparison, but they are actively
used by a few architectures (mips, sh) and some core code in kernel/
and mm/.

	Arnd
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