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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export new char dev functions
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:45:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030917224549.GD4920@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030917163628.19833.qmail@lwn.net>

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:36:28AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > John Levon sez:
> > > Of course, there are other exports from that file (i.e. register_chrdev());
> > > are we actively trying to shrink ksyms.c?
> > 
> > I think we are, yes. ksyms.c just makes life harder.
> 
> OK, here is a version that evacutates all of fs/char_dev.c's functions out
> of ksyms.c.  And that, probably, is about all the bandwidth this little
> patch is worth...
> 
> jon
> 
> diff -urN -X dontdiff test5-vanilla/fs/char_dev.c test5/fs/char_dev.c
> --- test5-vanilla/fs/char_dev.c	Mon Sep  8 13:50:01 2003
> +++ test5/fs/char_dev.c	Wed Sep 17 10:45:46 2003

Need to modify export-objs line in fs/Makefile too.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-17 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-16 18:18 [PATCH] Export new char dev functions Jonathan Corbet
2003-09-16 23:57 ` Greg KH
2003-09-17  2:36   ` Jonathan Corbet
2003-09-17  2:46     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-17  2:49     ` John Levon
2003-09-17 16:36       ` Jonathan Corbet
2003-09-17 22:45         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-09-17 23:03           ` Jonathan Corbet
2003-09-17 23:09             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-17 17:22     ` Greg KH

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