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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] param: make /sys/module/*/paramaters optional
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On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:50:35PM -0700, David Decotigny wrote:
> From: David Decotigny <decot@google.com>
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> With this patch, we allow systems that don't want to pay the price for
> /sys/module/*/paramaters to be compiled without that feature.

The "price"?  What kind of price is it?  How much memory is really saved
here?

greg k-h