Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove dead tcp exports
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>, hch@lst.de, davem@redhat.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:41:05 -0400
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On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 20:41 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:07:10 -0300
> Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net> wrote:
> 
> > Wheee, you had me scared for a moment. But indeed, not even tcpcp
> > (tcpcp.sf.net) uses any of these. But I kind of wonder how you
> > determine they're "dead" ?
> 
> There are scripts which build everything as possible as modules
> then greps the symbol tables of the object files to see which
> symbols exported by the kernel are actually used.

Is this really a compelling reason to remove them?  For example ALSA
provides an API for driver writers, just because a certain function
happens not to be used by any does not mean is never will be or that it
should not.

Lee

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