On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, 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? > > git-blame (or qgit, which I actually used) points from this part of > lib/Kconfig.debug to the following chunk in > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt: > > What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports > (temporary transition config option provided until then) > The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. > When: before 2.6.19 > Why: Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary > and are often a sign of "wrong API" > Who: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
argh. i should have checked there first. sorry for the noise. i can patch that baby out unless arjan wants to do it. 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/
