From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198] helo=moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.43 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DJy3D-0000UO-LI for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:17:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:17:41 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Andrew Morton Message-ID: <20050408181741.GA12170@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20050408170805.GE2292@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20050408104826.3ca70fb4.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050408104826.3ca70fb4.akpm@osdl.org> Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 8 April 2005 10:48:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jörn Engel wrote: > > > > Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code > > conditional on its last users and shrinks the kernel binary for the > > huge majority of people. > > If we do this, nobody will get around to fixing up the remaining users. I would do that personally if someone explained inter_module_* to me. Right now, I have absolutely no clue what the perceived problem was and how inter_module_* supposedly solved that problem. Jörn -- The strong give up and move away, while the weak give up and stay. -- unknown