From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: adilger@clusterfs.com, bzolnier@gmail.com, bunk@stusta.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport do_settimeofday
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:46:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050225014626.223c3114.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1109324017.6290.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> actually exports cause kernels to be bigger. Some of these exports
> aren't even used in the kernel entirely, others cause the kernel to be
> bigger just by being non-static and having the symbol structures there.
Yup. IOW, this problem is so vanishingly teensy-weensy as to be almost not
a problem at all. So we can wait 6-12 months before fixing it.
> A lot of them are "you really shouldn't" APIs.
Sure. That's why we should remove the export.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-25 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-24 23:37 [2.6 patch] unexport do_settimeofday Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 5:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 8:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-25 8:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 8:47 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-02-25 9:26 ` Andreas Dilger
2005-02-25 9:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-25 9:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-02-27 22:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-25 21:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 23:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-26 10:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-26 15:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 15:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 13:33 ` [2.6 patch] deprecate EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_settimeofday) Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 13:37 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-02-26 13:38 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-02-26 14:46 ` Russell King
2005-02-26 16:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 16:46 ` Russell King
2005-02-26 17:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 17:20 ` Russell King
2005-02-27 0:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 17:29 ` Russell King
2005-02-27 0:43 ` Adrian Bunk
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