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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] net/netlink/: possible cleanups
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:09:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060418190954.GM11582@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1145386121.21723.28.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:48:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2006-04-18 at 16:19 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > OTOH, we also have to always check whether users are expected soon (and 
> > recheck whether there are really users after some time) since every 
> > single export makes the kernel larger for nearly everyone.
> 
> Of course fixing the amount of memory used by an EXPORT_SYMBOL would be
> far more productive.

Both is productive.
You can decrease the amount of memory used by an EXPORT_SYMBOL, but you 
can't get it down to 0.

And in some cases the memory used by an EXPORT_SYMBOL mostly consists of 
an otherwise unused function...

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-18 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-13 16:27 [RFC: 2.6 patch] net/netlink/: possible cleanups Adrian Bunk
2006-04-13 20:26 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-14 10:32   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-14 10:56     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-04-18 14:19       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-18 18:48         ` Alan Cox
2006-04-18 19:09           ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-04-19  0:02   ` Philip Craig

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