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SubjectRe: bloat
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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