Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:53:34 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
       Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:25:33 -0800
> 
> Agreed. On first glance, I was intrigued but:
> 
> 1) Why is everyone so concerned that export symbol space is large?
> 	- does it cost cpu or running memory?

yes. about 120 bytes per symbol

> 	- does it cause bugs?

yes, bad apis are causing bugs... sys_open is just the starter of that.


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