[RFC PATCH 0/6] linkage: better symbol aliasing

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 12:47:09PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> This avoids repetition and hopefully make it easier to ensure
> consistency (e.g. so each function has a single canonical name and
> associated metadata).
> 
> I'm sending this as an RFC since I want to check:
> 
> a) People are happy with the idea in principle.
> 
> b) People are happy with the implementation within <linux/linkage.h>.
> 
> ... and I haven't yet converted the headers under tools/, which is
> largely a copy+paste job.

Looks like a definite improvement to me.

The only suggestion I'd have would be to fix a minor naming
inconsistency: change "SYM_FUNC_LOCAL_ALIAS" to "SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_LOCAL"
to match the other "<noun>_<verb>" macros.

-- 
Josh