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From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: "Tetsuo Handa" <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	acme@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:07:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020712030607v79ebf1e8w8c8b14d2647f1deb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071203135700.GR15974@stusta.de>

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:41:44PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > 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?

On Dec 3, 2007 3:57 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> The interesting fact is that there are zero in-kernel modules using it.

Yeah, and now that we have krealloc() I don't expect that many callers
actually need ksize() either.

                                Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03 14:07 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
2007-12-03 13:57         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-03 14:07           ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
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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