From: linuxram@us.ibm.com (Ram Pai)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, arjan@infradead.org, bunk@stusta.de,
greg@kroah.com, hch@infradead.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com,
mathur@us.ibm.com
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/3] export symbol report: overview
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:36:53 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060420223653.EF73E470030@localhost> (raw)
This patch series enables on-demand report generation of export symbol usage by
inkernel modules. The report is available at
A report generated by executing
make allmodconfig
make export_report
is available at http://www.sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/export_report.txt
This report lists:
1. the usage count of all exported symbols by in-kernel modules.
2. For each in-kernel module lists
a) the in-kernel modules it depend on.
b) list of exported symbols from that in-kernel modules it depend on.
Highlights:
On x86 architecture
(1) 880 exported symbols not used by any in-kernel modules.
(2) 1792 exported symbols used only once.
This patch series has comments by Adrian Bunk incorporated.
next reply other threads:[~2006-04-20 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-20 22:36 Ram Pai [this message]
2006-04-21 7:43 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] export symbol report: overview Sam Ravnborg
2006-04-21 8:20 ` Ram Pai
2006-04-21 9:39 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-21 9:34 ` Adrian Bunk
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