On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:17:19 +0100
"Torsten Kaiser" [off-list ref] wrote:

a) this could be disabled during development if you want this
b) this would even only affect development if you add new code that
now needs a EXPORT_SYMBOL that was removed on an earlier build. And
right now this would also need to trigger a rerun of depmod. And the
same trigger could redo this garbage collect.

Or am I missing something obvious?

Development is not a phase seperate from use or distribution. A lot of
module testers for distributions will not be compiling their own modules
but loading in ones to test provided by their vendor - which may of
course then need different ksyms

Alan