Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262912AbVDHSUW (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:20:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262897AbVDHSUU (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:20:20 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198]:39097 "EHLO moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262919AbVDHSRn (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:17:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:17:41 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users Message-ID: <20050408181741.GA12170@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20050408170805.GE2292@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20050408104826.3ca70fb4.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050408104826.3ca70fb4.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 885 Lines: 23 On Fri, 8 April 2005 10:48:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > J?rn Engel wrote: > > > > Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code > > conditional on its last users and shrinks the kernel binary for the > > huge majority of people. > > If we do this, nobody will get around to fixing up the remaining users. I would do that personally if someone explained inter_module_* to me. Right now, I have absolutely no clue what the perceived problem was and how inter_module_* supposedly solved that problem. J?rn -- The strong give up and move away, while the weak give up and stay. -- unknown - 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/