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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:03:06 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: make struct proc_dir_entry::namelen unsigned int
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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??