Jan. 28, 2021
11:57 p.m.
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 12:11:54 -0700, jim.cromie@gmail.com said:
In my hacking, Im finding this useful. it adds a version of KBUILD_MODNAME without the quotes
OK, I'll bite. When and how is this useful?
KBUILD_MODNAME has the quotes for a reason;
Hint: do a "git grep KBUILD_MODNAME", look at how it's used, and think about how invasive a patch to change it would be... (And pay heed to the comment in arch/sparc/include/asm/vio.h - it means that there's second-order effects to deal with as well...)
Afterall, __stringify() could add the quotes for cases where it was needed.Afterall, __stringify() could add the quotes for cases where it was needed.
How would it know?