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

[Mark Rutland]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 09:23:04PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 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.

Sure; I was following the example set by `SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_ALIAS`, but I
agree that placing LOCAL on the end looks more consistent overall once that's
removed.

For V2 I'll make that `SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_LOCAL`.

Thanks,
Mark.