Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:58:49 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark install_page static
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:14:43PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:12:59 +0200 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> | On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:09:29PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> | > On Maw, 2004-09-07 at 15:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> | > > Not used anywhere in modules and it really shouldn't either.
> | > 
> | > Doesn't that happen (conveniently from some viewpoints Im sure) to break
> | > vmware ?
> | 
> | It happens because Arjan & I wrote up some scripts to find dead exports.
> 
> Can you put those at kernelnewbies.org or janitor.kernelnewbies.org ?

Keith Ownes 'namespacecheck' flags unused exported symbols as well.
And furthermore unused non-static definitions.

Present in -mm only atm.

Usage: make && make namespacecheck

Dependent on actual configuration so output should be read carefully.
Should be good on a make allmodconfig or make allyesconfig


	Sam
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