Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro. | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:18:33 +1100 |
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On Friday 30 November 2007 03:53:34 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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
But this patch makes that worse, not better.
> > - does it cause bugs? > > yes, bad apis are causing bugs... sys_open is just the starter of that.
Sure, but this doesn't change the APIs, either. We seem to have fixed sys_open the right way, and since we're not supposed to care about out-of-tree modules...
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