[PATCH v3 00/11] Symbol Namespaces

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 08:46:47AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Matthias Maennich wrote:
> 
> > As of Linux 5.3-rc5, there are 31205 [1] exported symbols in the kernel.
> > That is a growth of roughly 1000 symbols since 4.17 (30206 [2]).  There
> > seems to be some consensus amongst kernel devs that the export surface
> > is too large, and hard to reason about.
> 
> This is good work.
> 
> One solution for drastically reducing the effective export surface is to 
> have CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=y. This is more extreme than symbol 
> namespace, but might be worth mentioning nevertheless.

Oh that's amazing, I never noticed that feature.  That is a nice thing,
thanks for pointing it out.

greg k-h