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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:10:05 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.31 -mm merge plans
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 09:15:05AM +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> Hi, Al.
>
> Just as what I said in the description of that patch, one only has  
> extern functions that are _only_ used in another as function pointers.

Er...  So what?  Amount of functions made static is not, per se, a
useful metrics of anything.

> And the size of code can't be a reason why they are seperated, we have
> much more source files larger than this one. :)

And that's not a good thing...