Re: Dead symbol elimination, stage 1

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>:
> 
> esr@thyrsus.com said:
> >  I read this as "I haven't fixed the problem because..."  not as
> > "Don't fix the problem."  Please be more explicit next time so I won't
> > step on your toes? 
> 
> "This is not a problem, please don't \"fix\" it".

But it is.  The more false positives I get in the dead-symbol reports,
the harder it will be to spot real problems like that business in the 
ARM kernel.c file.

I grant you this wasn't a problem before I wrote kxref.py, but it is
one now.  New tools create new opportunities, but they sometimes require
better discipline and working practices to be useful.  This is one of
those cases.
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