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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 04:28:10 EST


On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 01:55:50PM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> 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!?

Yes. There's very very few reason to keep unused functions around,
and a patch that hasn't been merged forever is not one of those.

Please kill it.

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