Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Nov 2004 23:07:53 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: bloat |
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On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:41:47PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:36:08PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > It's even harder because some subsystem maintainers refuse to remove > > unused global functions that might be used at some point far in the > > future or that even are never intended for in-kernel usage... > > I have one or two unused functions inside #if 0 in sddr09.c. > Finding out the proper hardware details was nontrivial, > it would be a pity to throw the knowledge away. > But of course there is never a reason to have an unused function > appear in the binary. It is only source bloat.
No disagreement on this issue.
But unused global functions that are even EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed like in the ACPI and FireWire cases are not only source bloat...
> Andries
cu Adrian
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