linux-kernel - Re: [1/2] vmalloc: Show vmalloced areas via /proc/vmallocinfo

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Message-ID: <20080321220941.6b441801@core>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:09:41 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, arjan@...radead.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/2] vmalloc: Show vmalloced areas via /proc/vmallocinfo

> That makes the feature somewhat less useful.  Let's think this through more
> carefully - it is, after all, an unrevokable, unalterable addition to the
> kernel ABI.

Which means it does not belong in /proc.

Alan
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