Re: [PATCH] iget-locked [2/6]

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> No problems, except for putting exports in inode.c.  ISTR Linus saying that
> additional files with exports seriously increase the build time...  Linus?

A few additional ones are fine - especially for "core" stuff like inode.c 
I don't see any problem at all.

And keeping EXPORT_SYMBOL close to the place that defines it makes some 
things clearer. I would certainly not mind moving some of the 
kernel/ksym.c stuff out to the places that actually define the functions.

If it becomes an issue where _most_ files in export symbols, our build 
times will suck, but fs/inode.c is certainly central enough that I don't 
find any problem with it.

		Linus