From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] net/irda/irias_object.c: remove unused exports Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:37:19 +0100 Message-ID: <1145212639.5656.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060414114446.GL4162@stusta.de> <20060414164203.GA24146@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <1145209616.3809.14.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, Adrian Bunk , Samuel.Ortiz@nokia.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:8370 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750785AbWDPSeV (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:34:21 -0400 To: Arjan van de Ven In-Reply-To: <1145209616.3809.14.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sul, 2006-04-16 at 19:46 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Personally, I don't see what this patch buy us... > > all the unused exports in the kernel together make a binary kernel 100Kb > bigger. It's a case of a lot of little steps I suppose (each export > taking like 100 to 150 bytes depending on the size of the function name) So why are exports taking us 100-150 bytes, not say 20 which is what I'd expect ?