[RFC v8 net-next 08/16] mfd: ocelot: add support for the vsc7512 chip via spi

Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean at nxp.com
Fri Aug 19 09:50:31 PDT 2022


Hi Andy,

On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 11:02:42AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ocelot_chip_reset);
> 
> Please, switch to the namespace (_NS) variant of the exported-imported
> symbols for these drivers.

This was recently brought to my attention by Colin. Could you please
explain what are the benefits of using symbol namespaces in this case?


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