From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964793AbWDZSV7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:21:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964795AbWDZSV7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:21:59 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:50384 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964793AbWDZSV6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:21:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] export symbol report: overview From: Ram Pai To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@osdl.org, arjan@infradead.org, bunk@susta.de, greg@kroah.com, hch@infradead.org, ilmari@ilmari.org, mathur@us.ibm.com, sam@ravnborg.org In-Reply-To: <20060422012145.74296470031@localhost> References: <20060422012145.74296470031@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:21:45 -0700 Message-Id: <1146079305.6430.35.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 18:21 -0700, Ram Pai wrote: > This patch series enables on-demand report generation of export symbol usage by > inkernel modules. > > A report generated by executing > make allmodconfig > make exportcheck > is available at http://www.sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/new_export_report.txt > > The same report can also be generated by executing from the top level > directory: > perl scripts/export_report.pl > > 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. > > Thanks to Adrian Bunk, Arjan, Sam Ravnborg, Dagfinn Ilmari for their > valuable comments. All comments have been incorporated. Since I have not heard anything bad about these patches, shall I request Andrew to apply them to his tree? RP