On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > ... > > > it's not clear if that means that it was a *one-time* transition > > > aid which is now unnecessary, or whether it's an *ongoing* aid which > > > might be used at any time. currently, there are no invocations of > > > EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL[_GPL] anywhere in the tree. so does that mean > > > this feature can be tossed? or might it still be used every so often? > > it's one of those pieces of infrastructure that get used from time > to time to phase out symbol exports... we should be more agressive > about that; about 1/3rd of the exports is not used by anything in > linux, yet each symbol costs about 100 bytes of memory at runtime.
ok, so maybe its removal file entry should be deleted if it's going to hang around. your call. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
