From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: bunk@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:46:29 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071202214629.GA15034@ghostprotocols.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712030634.CBJ18798.OVFQJSFFOHMtLO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Em Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 06:34:20AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa escreveu:
> Hello.
>
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > mm/slub.c exports ksize(), but mm/slob.c and mm/slab.c don't. I don't know why.
> > That's due to the fact that my patch to remove this unused export from
> > slub was not yet applied...
> So, removing exports is intended thing?
The ones that are leftovers from past, valid, uses, yes. Kudos to Adrian
for being the zealot in action!
> > Where is the modular in-kernel user?
> I don't know.
> But I think ksize() should be available to kernel modules as well as kmalloc() etc.
Why do you think so? You have to justify that with some valid use.
- Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-02 21:47 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 [this message]
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
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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