Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262893AbTIQWt7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:49:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262894AbTIQWt7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:49:59 -0400 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([63.247.75.124]:19116 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262893AbTIQWt6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:49:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:45:49 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export new char dev functions Message-ID: <20030917224549.GD4920@gtf.org> References: <20030917024911.GA35464@compsoc.man.ac.uk> <20030917163628.19833.qmail@lwn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030917163628.19833.qmail@lwn.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 952 Lines: 28 On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:36:28AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > John Levon sez: > > > Of course, there are other exports from that file (i.e. register_chrdev()); > > > are we actively trying to shrink ksyms.c? > > > > I think we are, yes. ksyms.c just makes life harder. > > OK, here is a version that evacutates all of fs/char_dev.c's functions out > of ksyms.c. And that, probably, is about all the bandwidth this little > patch is worth... > > jon > > diff -urN -X dontdiff test5-vanilla/fs/char_dev.c test5/fs/char_dev.c > --- test5-vanilla/fs/char_dev.c Mon Sep 8 13:50:01 2003 > +++ test5/fs/char_dev.c Wed Sep 17 10:45:46 2003 Need to modify export-objs line in fs/Makefile too. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/