linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add EXPORT

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Message-ID: <84144f020712030607v79ebf1e8w8c8b14d2647f1deb@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:07:33 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	"Tetsuo Handa" <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	acme@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);

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@...nel.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
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