linux-kernel - Re: si_swapinfo export

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Message-ID: <3187.1314993238@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:53:58 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	George Shuklin <george.shuklin@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: si_swapinfo export

On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:41:29 +0400, George Shuklin said:
> Good day.
> 
> Why si_swapinfo (from include/linux/swap.h) is not marked as
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL? It's kinda hard to gain information about memory in
> module. 

Use case?  What information exactly are you trying to get in the module, and
equally important, why?  More likely, what you *actually* want isn't the
information, it's a new API (or using an existing one you didn't even know was
there) :)

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