Re: [PATCH] Remove argument from open_softirq which is always NULL

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:15:37AM -0300, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:
> This observation has already been made by Matthew Wilcox in June 2002
> (http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-25/0687.html)
> 
> "I notice that none of the current softirq routines use the data element
> passed to them."
> 
> and the situation hasn't changed since them. So it appears we can safely
> remove that extra argument to save 128 (54) bytes of kernel data (text).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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