Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:34:28 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] export symbol report: overview |
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On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:43:17AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:36:53PM -0700, Ram Pai wrote: > > This patch series enables on-demand report generation of export symbol usage by > > inkernel modules. The report is available at > > > > A report generated by executing > > make allmodconfig > > make export_report > > is available at http://www.sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/export_report.txt > > > > This report lists: > > 1. the usage count of all exported symbols by in-kernel modules. > > 2. For each in-kernel module lists > > a) the in-kernel modules it depend on. > > b) list of exported symbols from that in-kernel modules it depend on. > > > > Highlights: > > On x86 architecture > > (1) 880 exported symbols not used by any in-kernel modules. > > (2) 1792 exported symbols used only once. > > > > This patch series has comments by Adrian Bunk incorporated. > > Hi Ram Pai. > > In principle what your patch does is a simple port-processign of > Module.symvers. > Insead of introducing another step in the buildprocess then for this > functionality we should just call your script direct. > This is not something the average users will do often, so having to > type: > ./scripts/export-report.pl >...
Adding an exportcheck target similar to e.g. the namespacecheck or checkstack targets calling an external script shouldn't be a problem.
> Sam
cu Adrian
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