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From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To: acme@redhat.com
Cc: bunk@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:41:44 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712032041.ABB90643.SOFVQFtMHFLOOJ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071202214629.GA15034@ghostprotocols.net>

Hello.

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > 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.
Is there an alternative function?
If not, it sounds to me that this is a regression.
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?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03 11:41 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 [this message]
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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