On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:48:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2006-04-18 at 16:19 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > OTOH, we also have to always check whether users are expected soon (and
> > recheck whether there are really users after some time) since every
> > single export makes the kernel larger for nearly everyone.
>
> Of course fixing the amount of memory used by an EXPORT_SYMBOL would be
> far more productive.
Both is productive.
You can decrease the amount of memory used by an EXPORT_SYMBOL, but you
can't get it down to 0.
And in some cases the memory used by an EXPORT_SYMBOL mostly consists of
an otherwise unused function...
cu
Adrian
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