From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
acme@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:19:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071203211904.GO17536@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020712030607v79ebf1e8w8c8b14d2647f1deb@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 04:07:33PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:41:44PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > We couldn't know how much memory was allocated by kmalloc() in 2.4 era, and we can know it 2.6 era.
> > > But are we going back to 2.4 era for out-of-tree kernel modules?
>
> On Dec 3, 2007 3:57 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > The interesting fact is that there are zero in-kernel modules using it.
>
> Yeah, and now that we have krealloc() I don't expect that many callers
> actually need ksize() either.
Yes, most of them ought not exist.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-03 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-02 8:43 [PATCH] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize); Tetsuo Handa
2007-12-02 13:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-02 21:34 ` Tetsuo Handa
2007-12-02 21:46 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2007-12-03 11:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
2007-12-03 13:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-03 14:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-03 21:19 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2007-12-03 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 21:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-06 21:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-11 10:46 ` Bernd Schmidt
2007-12-11 11:16 ` Greg Ungerer
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