From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] net/netlink/: possible cleanups Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:09:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20060418190954.GM11582@stusta.de> References: <20060413162710.GE4162@stusta.de> <20060413.132603.94193712.davem@davemloft.net> <20060414103202.GF4162@stusta.de> <20060414105610.GA18149@2ka.mipt.ru> <20060418141946.GC11582@stusta.de> <1145386121.21723.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:28936 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932295AbWDRTJz (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:09:55 -0400 To: Alan Cox Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1145386121.21723.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:48:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2006-04-18 at 16:19 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > OTOH, we also have to always check whether users are expected soon (and > > recheck whether there are really users after some time) since every > > single export makes the kernel larger for nearly everyone. > > Of course fixing the amount of memory used by an EXPORT_SYMBOL would be > far more productive. Both is productive. You can decrease the amount of memory used by an EXPORT_SYMBOL, but you can't get it down to 0. And in some cases the memory used by an EXPORT_SYMBOL mostly consists of an otherwise unused function... 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