On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 19:37 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2006-04-16 at 19:46 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > Personally, I don't see what this patch buy us... > > > > all the unused exports in the kernel together make a binary kernel 100Kb > > bigger. It's a case of a lot of little steps I suppose (each export > > taking like 100 to 150 bytes depending on the size of the function name) > > > So why are exports taking us 100-150 bytes, not say 20 which is what I'd > expect ?
there is the name, the crc, the address, a module name thingy (which I think is only filled for non-built-in symbols) and I'm sure there's some padding here and there... About 1/3rd of all exports is unused, so killing those is an easy way to gain back the space... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
