Re: 2.1.22 unneeded global symbols

Thomas Koenig (ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
30 Jan 1997 20:30:50 +0100


In linux.dev.kernel, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote:

>The point I was making was that the script incorrectly generates tons
>of network noise as there are a lot of network routines assigned to
>variables from other modules and ideally that is something the script
>could filter.

It does filter them. If the address of a network routine is assigned
to a variable in another file, this creates an undefined reference
to that variable in that other file, and the script doesn't list it.

If that doesn't happen in reality, somebody please point it out,
so that I can correct that.