Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262326AbVAOVfZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:35:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262327AbVAOVfZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:35:25 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:2065 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262326AbVAOVfT (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:35:19 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:35:15 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Arjan van de Ven , viro@zenII.uk.linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: make flock_lock_file_wait static Message-ID: <20050115213515.GQ4274@stusta.de> References: <20050109194209.GA7588@infradead.org> <1105310650.11315.19.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1105345168.4171.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1105346324.4171.16.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1105367014.11462.13.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1105432299.3917.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1105471004.12005.46.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1105471004.12005.46.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1366 Lines: 39 On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:16:44PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > ty den 11.01.2005 Klokka 09:31 (+0100) skreiv Arjan van de Ven: >... > > If it is going to take a LOT longer though I still feel it's wrong to > > bloat *everyones* kernel with this stuff. > > > > (you may think "it's only 100 bytes", well, there are 700+ other such > > functions, total that makes over at least 70Kb of unswappable, wasted > > memory if not more.) > > A list of these 700+ unused exported APIs would be very useful so that > we can deprecate and/or get rid of them. >... Patches are already sent for each one that is found (the one by Arjan in this discusison is one of them). My figures in [1] show, any kind of deprecation would mean _much_ extra work within the current 2.6 development model. > Trond cu Adrian [1] http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0501.0/2036.html -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/