On Maw, 2006-05-09 at 18:13 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > So hum. Don't you think it'd be better to look at each API as a whole,
> > make decisions about what parts of it _should_ be offered to modules,
> > rather then looking empirically at which parts presently _need_ to be
> > exported?
>
> Well so far we as kernel developers have been rather bad at it, with the result
> that there are 900 unused ones roughly. Each export takes somewhere between 100
> and 150 bytes.
Of course the more technically beneficial approach would be to stop
exports taking such ludicrous amounts of memory.
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