Re: [PATCH] aio: remove unused function aio_run_iocbs()

[Nikanth Karthikesan]

On Monday 30 June 2008 23:10:50 Zach Brown wrote:
> Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >> remove unused function aio_run_iocbs()
> >
> > Seems like it's time to just get rid of it.  See:
> >   http://ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.0/0048.html
> > for an explanation of why it's still there.
>
> Yeah, I'm still of the opinion that the cost of having to resurrect it
> if it's needed again isn't significant enough to keep it in the tree
> without callers.
>

Can't this function be kept as part of the out-of-tree patch itself? Or is it 
a module that requires this symbol? I do not see a EXPORT_SYMBOL*() for this, 
so it cannot be a module depending on this func!?

Thanks
Nikanth Karthikesan


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