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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark install_page static
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:00:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907200049.GA14413@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040907215849.GB11238@mars.ravnborg.org>

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:58:49PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:14:43PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:12:59 +0200 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > | On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:09:29PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > | > On Maw, 2004-09-07 at 15:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > | > > Not used anywhere in modules and it really shouldn't either.
> > | > 
> > | > Doesn't that happen (conveniently from some viewpoints Im sure) to break
> > | > vmware ?
> > | 
> > | It happens because Arjan & I wrote up some scripts to find dead exports.
> > 
> > Can you put those at kernelnewbies.org or janitor.kernelnewbies.org ?
> 
> Keith Ownes 'namespacecheck' flags unused exported symbols as well.
> And furthermore unused non-static definitions.

Well, to get halfway reliable data you need to merge the data from
multiple architectures.  And then do lots of manual grepping for
every instance to be sure.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-07 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-07 14:37 [PATCH] mark install_page static Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 17:09 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-07 18:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 17:25     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-07 18:29       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 19:14     ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-09-07 21:58       ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-09-07 20:00         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-09-09 15:10     ` Herbert Poetzl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-07 17:46 Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-07 17:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 23:05 ` William Lee Irwin III

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