Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:36:53 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove dead tcp exports |
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:41:05AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > 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.
I've excluded functions where I thoug hthe API makes sense. Of course I don't know all code in the kernel nor do I always make the right decision, so I ask the maintainers for their opinion.
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