Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove dead tcp exports | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:41:05 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 20:41 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:07:10 -0300 > Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net> wrote: > > > Wheee, you had me scared for a moment. But indeed, not even tcpcp > > (tcpcp.sf.net) uses any of these. But I kind of wonder how you > > determine they're "dead" ? > > There are scripts which build everything as possible as modules > then greps the symbol tables of the object files to see which > symbols exported by the kernel are actually used.
Is this really a compelling reason to remove them? For example ALSA provides an API for driver writers, just because a certain function happens not to be used by any does not mean is never will be or that it should not.
Lee
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