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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  aio: remove unused function aio_run_iocbs()
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 04:27:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080701082738.GA1293@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807011355.51049.knikanth@suse.de>

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 01:55:50PM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> Can't this function be kept as part of the out-of-tree patch itself? Or is it 
> a module that requires this symbol? I do not see a EXPORT_SYMBOL*() for this, 
> so it cannot be a module depending on this func!?

Yes.  There's very very few reason to keep unused functions around,
and a patch that hasn't been merged forever is not one of those.

Please kill it.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-26 11:10 [PATCH] aio: remove unused function aio_run_iocbs() Nikanth Karthikesan
2008-06-27 13:15 ` Jeff Moyer
2008-06-30 17:40   ` Zach Brown
2008-07-01  8:25     ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2008-07-01  8:27       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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