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@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ is to define the default namespace in the ``Makefile`` of the subsystem. E.g. to
export all symbols defined in usb-common into the namespace USB_COMMON, add a
line like this to drivers/usb/common/Makefile::
- ccflags-y += -DDEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE=USB_COMMON
+ ccflags-y += -DDEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE='"USB_COMMON"'
That will affect all EXPORT_SYMBOL() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() statements. A
symbol exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() while this definition is present, will
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ A second option to define the default namespace is directly in the compilation
unit as preprocessor statement. The above example would then read::
#undef DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE
- #define DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE USB_COMMON
+ #define DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE "USB_COMMON"
within the corresponding compilation unit before any EXPORT_SYMBOL macro is
used.