Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] export symbol report: overview | From | Ram Pai <> | Date | Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:21:45 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 18:21 -0700, Ram Pai wrote: > This patch series enables on-demand report generation of export symbol usage by > inkernel modules. > > A report generated by executing > make allmodconfig > make exportcheck > is available at http://www.sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/new_export_report.txt > > The same report can also be generated by executing from the top level > directory: > perl scripts/export_report.pl > > 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. > > Thanks to Adrian Bunk, Arjan, Sam Ravnborg, Dagfinn Ilmari for their > valuable comments. All comments have been incorporated.
Since I have not heard anything bad about these patches, shall I request Andrew to apply them to his tree?
RP
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