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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.

  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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