From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932158AbWDRSlE (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:41:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932274AbWDRSlD (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:41:03 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:34023 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932158AbWDRSlC (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:41:02 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] net/netlink/: possible cleanups From: Alan Cox To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060418141946.GC11582@stusta.de> References: <20060413162710.GE4162@stusta.de> <20060413.132603.94193712.davem@davemloft.net> <20060414103202.GF4162@stusta.de> <20060414105610.GA18149@2ka.mipt.ru> <20060418141946.GC11582@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:48:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1145386121.21723.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2006-04-18 at 16:19 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > OTOH, we also have to always check whether users are expected soon (and > recheck whether there are really users after some time) since every > single export makes the kernel larger for nearly everyone. Of course fixing the amount of memory used by an EXPORT_SYMBOL would be far more productive.