Re: [PATCH] mark install_page static

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 15:45:23 EST


On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:58:49PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:14:43PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:12:59 +0200 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > | On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:09:29PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > | > On Maw, 2004-09-07 at 15:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > | > > Not used anywhere in modules and it really shouldn't either.
> > | >
> > | > Doesn't that happen (conveniently from some viewpoints Im sure) to break
> > | > vmware ?
> > |
> > | It happens because Arjan & I wrote up some scripts to find dead exports.
> >
> > Can you put those at kernelnewbies.org or janitor.kernelnewbies.org ?
>
> Keith Ownes 'namespacecheck' flags unused exported symbols as well.
> And furthermore unused non-static definitions.

Well, to get halfway reliable data you need to merge the data from
multiple architectures. And then do lots of manual grepping for
every instance to be sure.

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