Jor-el wrote:
> From the book 'Linux Device Drivers' by Alessandro Rubini :
>
> "... The best approach to prevent namespace pollution is to declare
> all your symbols as static and to use a well-defined prefix for the
> symbols you leave as global."
>
> By namespace pollution, the author is referring to the problem
> which occurs when device driver writers may create functions / global
> variables that maybe used elsewhere in the kernel.
>
> My question is this : how does using 'static' variables solve this
> problem? I was not aware that static variables / function pointers had
> such a property.
Functions or global variables which are declared `static' are only
visible within the file in which they are declared.
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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
