netdev - Re: remove kernel_setsockopt and kernel

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Message-ID: <20200514062706.GB8564@lst.de>
Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 08:27:06 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Jon Maloy <jmaloy@...hat.com>,
        Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>, drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com,
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Subject: Re: remove kernel_setsockopt and kernel_getsockopt

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:38:59AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> It might be useful to show overall object size change.
> 
> More EXPORT_SYMBOL uses increase object size a little.
> 
> And not sure it matters much except it reduces overall object
> size, but these patches remove (unnecessary) logging on error
> and that could be mentioned in the cover letter too.

The intent here is not to reduce code size.  The intent is to kill of
set_fs users so that we can eventually remove set_fs entirely.