Re: [RFC/PULL 00/11] introduce export.h; reduce module.h usage

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For all 160 commits, the branch "module.h-split", available here:
>
>        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux.git
>
> has the complete content.  I've put the header changes after all the
> patches from the top 5 categories, so that people bisecting non related
> issues at a later date don't get hit with a commit zone with build failures.

Ok, sounds good. Two questions:

 - how much testing (randconfig? different architectures?) has this gotten?

 - how much does this actually improve compile times (for a "normal"
build or a "allmodconfig" one)?

It certainly sounds like the RightThing(tm) to do, but I'd like to
know that there is real actual improvements to build times and that
the pain won't be too bad...

             Linus
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