Re: Remove unused exports and save 98Kb of kernel size

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:05:45 +0200,
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've made a patch to remove all EXPORT_SYMBOL's that aren't used in the
> kernel; it's too big for the list so it can be found at
> 
> http://www.kernelmorons.org/unexport.patch
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34476416 Apr  1 21:59 vmlinux.before
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34378112 Apr  1 22:48 vmlinux.after
> 
> As you can see this saves 98Kb kernel size... that's not peanuts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Please be careful, many removals in sound will break under certain
kernel config (e.g. CONFIG_ISA).


Takashi
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