Re: Unix-domain sockets - abstract addresses

[Keith Owens]

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 19:59:06 -0700 (PDT), 
"David S. Miller" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I don't like this solution, please fix this right and get rid of the
>limitations at their source.
>
>If I name a module "foo" and this causes "fo" to become a defined
>CPP symbol in when compiling the sources for that module, that is
>completely broken!
>
>net/unix is just a trite example.  How about a driver for device "foo"
>that has a member "foo" in one of it's structures?  They have to get
>this undef thing too or rename their module, that's rediculious.

I think you misunderstood the problem.  Calling a driver "foo" does not
make "foo" a cpp symbol.  The problem here is that 'unix' is a driver
name and also a symbol that is defined by gcc.