From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/17] Infrastructure to mark exported symbols as unused-for-removal-soon
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 18:23:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147195436.3172.115.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4460BF8C.1050803@linux.intel.com>
On Maw, 2006-05-09 at 18:13 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > So hum. Don't you think it'd be better to look at each API as a whole,
> > make decisions about what parts of it _should_ be offered to modules,
> > rather then looking empirically at which parts presently _need_ to be
> > exported?
>
> Well so far we as kernel developers have been rather bad at it, with the result
> that there are 900 unused ones roughly. Each export takes somewhere between 100
> and 150 bytes.
Of course the more technically beneficial approach would be to stop
exports taking such ludicrous amounts of memory.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-09 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-02 14:53 [patch 1/17] Infrastructure to mark exported symbols as unused-for-removal-soon Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-02 16:24 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-05-02 16:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-09 16:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-09 16:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-09 16:27 ` Jörn Engel
2006-05-09 17:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-05-11 6:34 ` Paul Jackson
2006-05-11 7:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-11 8:06 ` Paul Jackson
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