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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport install_page
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:36:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060221143639.GY4661@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140532473.840.23.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:34:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2006-02-21 at 15:13 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This means it has only bloated the kernel for two and a half years 
> > for nearly everyone.
> 
> Wouldn't it be more productive to just shave 30 bytes off some other
> function and make it faster instead of moaning about every single export
> symbol that is provided even when its intentionally part of a complete
> API ?

Wouldn't it be best to do both?

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-21 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-20 22:37 [2.6 patch] unexport install_page Adrian Bunk
2006-02-21 10:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-21 12:49   ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-21 14:13     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-21 14:34       ` Alan Cox
2006-02-21 14:36         ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-29 19:19 Adrian Bunk
2006-02-16 17:03 Adrian Bunk

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