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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2006-06-28 15:26:45 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-29 01:59:04 +0400 |
| commit | f71d20e961474dde77e6558396efb93d6ac80a4b (patch) | |
| tree | 669610f79521fd173c28fc47bef39ecd4cdf52ab /Documentation | |
| parent | f5e54d6e53a20cef45af7499e86164f0e0d16bb2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f71d20e961474dde77e6558396efb93d6ac80a4b.tar.xz | |
[PATCH] Add EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL and EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL
Temporarily add EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL and EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL. These
will be used as a transition measure for symbols that aren't used in the
kernel and are on the way out. When a module uses such a symbol, a warning
is printk'd at modprobe time.
The main reason for removing unused exports is size: eacho export takes
roughly between 100 and 150 bytes of kernel space in the binary. This
patch gives users the option to immediately get this size gain via a config
option.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 027285d0c26c..033ac91da07a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -177,6 +177,16 @@ Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> --------------------------- +What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports + (temporary transition config option provided until then) + The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. +When: before 2.6.19 +Why: Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary + and are often a sign of "wrong API" +Who: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> + +--------------------------- + What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklist_lock) When: August 2006 Files: kernel/fork.c |