Re: [PATCH] Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);

[Tetsuo Handa]

Hello.

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > But I think ksize() should be available to kernel modules as well as kmalloc() etc.
> Why do you think so? You have to justify that with some valid use.
Is there an alternative function?
If not, it sounds to me that this is a regression.
We couldn't know how much memory was allocated by kmalloc() in 2.4 era, and we can know it 2.6 era.
But are we going back to 2.4 era for out-of-tree kernel modules?

Thanks.
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