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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.

             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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