linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] slab: export ksize to modules

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702211031290.24719@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:33:29 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>
cc:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu,
	unionfs@...esystems.org, bunk@...sta.de, hooanon05@...oo.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] slab: export ksize to modules

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:06:52AM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> > From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> > 
> > This exports ksize in slab and slob allocators to modules.
> 
> That's a pretty generic name... if it's going to be part of the module
> API, it should be renamed to something a bit more obvious.

Hmmm... The current names are

kmalloc
kcalloc
kzalloc
kfree
ksize

All are pretty terse and most are frequently used (except ksize and 
maybe kcalloc).

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