Re: [PATCH] restrict inter_module_* to its last users

From: Jörn Engel
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 13:24:05 EST


On Fri, 8 April 2005 10:48:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Next step for inter_module removal. This patch makes the code
> > conditional on its last users and shrinks the kernel binary for the
> > huge majority of people.
>
> If we do this, nobody will get around to fixing up the remaining users.

I would do that personally if someone explained inter_module_* to me.
Right now, I have absolutely no clue what the perceived problem was
and how inter_module_* supposedly solved that problem.

Jörn

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