On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:45:21PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > > Because the API was being widely abused in the nommu code, for example. > > I'd rather not add it back for this special case which can be handled > > otherwise. On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:50 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > I'm sorry but that's like banning the use of heaters just because > they can abused and cause fires. > > I think I've said this to you before but in networking we very much > want to use ksize because the standard case of a 1500-byte packet > has loads of extra room given by kmalloc which all goes to waste > right now. > > If we could use ksize then we can stuff loads of metadata in that > space. OK, fair enough, I applied Kirill's patch. Thanks. Pekka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
