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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:02:48PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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...

Considering it even lacks a MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") I do very much suspect
it simply lacks any use case.

cu
Adrian

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