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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: make struct proc_dir_entry::namelen unsigned int
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:03:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110309150306.90369913.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110308105428.GA5767@p183.telecom.by>

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:54:28 +0200
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Space is not really conserved, because of natural alignment for the next field.
> sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry) remains the same.
> 

What is the reason for this patch??


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-09 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-08 10:54 Alexey Dobriyan
2011-03-09 23:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-03-09 23:22   ` Alexey Dobriyan

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