linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add EXPORT

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Date:	Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:19:05 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	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);

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 04:07:33PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> 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.

Yes, most of them ought not exist.

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