Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/acpi: remove unused exported functions

[Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 16:50, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The patch below completely removes 7 functions that were
> EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed but had exactly zero users in the kernel and makes
> another one that was previously EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed static.
> 
> It also removes another unused global function to completely remove
> drivers/acpi/hardware/hwtimer.c which contained no function used
> anywhere in the kernel.
> 
> Please comment on whether this patch is correct or whether in-kernel
> users of these functions are pending.
> 
> 
> diffstat output:
>  drivers/acpi/acpi_ksyms.c        |    8 -
>  drivers/acpi/events/evxfevnt.c   |  191 -----------------------------
>  drivers/acpi/hardware/Makefile   |    2
>  drivers/acpi/hardware/hwtimer.c  |  200
> -------------------------------
>  drivers/acpi/resources/rsxface.c |   52 --------
>  drivers/acpi/scan.c              |    6
>  drivers/acpi/utilities/utxface.c |   89 -------------
>  include/acpi/achware.h           |   17 --
>  include/acpi/acpi_bus.h          |    1
>  include/acpi/acpixf.h            |   24 ---
>  10 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 584 deletions(-)

No, I can't apply this one as-is.
Some of these routines are not called now
simply because Linux/ACPI is evolving and we don't
yet take advantage of some of the things supported
by ACPICA core we use.

thanks,
-Len