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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
