Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:02:48 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 03:34:59PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:48:42 +0100
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 05:43:39PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > 
> > > mm/slub.c exports ksize(), but mm/slob.c and mm/slab.c don't. I don't know why.
> > >...
> > 
> > That's due to the fact that my patch to remove this unused export from 
> > slub was not yet applied...
> > 
> > Where is the modular in-kernel user?
> > 
> 
> binfmt_flat.c, binfmt_elf_fdpic.c.

I could have sworn I had checked that both are bools, but BINFMT_FLAT is 
actually a tristate.

Is anyone actually using binfmt_flat modular (considering it's only 
available for !MMU embedded systems)? If yes, then only exporting 
ksize() will not be enough for getting it working modular...

cu
Adrian

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