On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:55:46AM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: [] > > Give me example, please, why function must be non static if not used. > > Where do you see I'm saying that they must be non-static? > I'm all for marking functions static. I just did it for aic7xxx. > > > If usage requires kconfig tuning, then this is a better way to go, > > We already do it, but we don't have enough developers to audit > every driver for every possible combination of config options. > As a result, there always be some amount of unused functions and data. > Using --gc-sections will discard that.
You've did a tool. Documenting this tool to have it available for testers/janitors/maintainers is a better way, than to have all that opinions/problems with merging-to-mainline. > > than to adopt yet another GNU/Luxury. > > Actually, this is how linkers should have worked long ago. > Borland's Turbo Pascal was doing it ten+ years ago. > > I don't understand why you are opposed to toolchain helping > humans to get optimized result. But it's fine with me. > I won't force anyone to select CONFIG_DISCARD_UNUSED_SECTIONS. That's why. It's treating symptoms, isn't it? ____ - 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/