Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> actually exports cause kernels to be bigger. Some of these exports
> aren't even used in the kernel entirely, others cause the kernel to be
> bigger just by being non-static and having the symbol structures there.

Yup.  IOW, this problem is so vanishingly teensy-weensy as to be almost not
a problem at all.  So we can wait 6-12 months before fixing it.

> A lot of them are "you really shouldn't" APIs.

Sure.  That's why we should remove the export.
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