Re: [PATCH -next] lib: zstd: Make symbol 'HUF_compressWeights_wksp' static

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Thu Apr 08 2021 - 23:09:48 EST


On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 2:20 AM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Quite a few other functions are declared in a header, but I don't see
> any existing callers in tree. I wonder if the maintainer could
> consider cleaning these up so that we don't retain them in binaries
> without dead code elimination enabled, or if there's a need to keep
> this code in line with an external upstream codebase?

Yeah, the equivalent cleanup was done upstream by Nick in 2018 [1],
but there has been no major update to lib/zstd since 2017.

Thus a cleanup would actually make it closer to upstream, which is the
best case scenario :)

Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>

[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/commit/f2d6db45cd28457fa08467416e8535985f062859

Cheers,
Miguel