Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:36:53 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
       Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>, hch@lst.de, davem@redhat.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove dead tcp exports
Message-ID: <20041026093653.GA22059@lst.de>
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:41:05AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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.

I've excluded functions where I thoug hthe API makes sense.  Of course
I don't know all code in the kernel nor do I always make the right
decision, so I ask the maintainers for their opinion.

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