Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 04:14:28 EST


kaos@ocs.com.au said:
> Does anything still use this symbol or is it dead? Quite valid
> question.

Indeed.

> The script is NOT an automatic list of what can be cleaned up. I
> doubt that such a list can be generated in the face of the kernel
> config system and third party modules. It is only a starting point
> for symbols that need reviewing.

OK, cool. As it came out of the discussion about -ffunction-sections and
automatically garbage-collecting unused functions during the build, I
thought you had other, less sane intentions. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

--
dwmw2

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