From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261156AbVAHNLB (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:11:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261155AbVAHNLA (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:11:00 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:13986 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261159AbVAHNKs (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:10:48 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:10:45 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , mingo@elte.hu, paulmck@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com, greghk@us.ibm.com, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Message-ID: <20050108131045.GB26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20050106210408.GM1292@us.ibm.com> <20050106212417.GQ26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106152621.395f935e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050106234123.GA27869@infradead.org> <20050106162928.650e9d71.akpm@osdl.org> <20050107002624.GA29006@infradead.org> <20050107090014.GA24946@elte.hu> <20050107091542.GA5295@infradead.org> <20050107140034.46aec534.akpm@osdl.org> <20050107233246.GH14108@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050107233246.GH14108@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:32:47AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > - wasts space for all users of Linux (e.g. some of the recent removals > are "remove EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed but completely unused function" patches > I sent) Note that this alone is *NOT* enough for removal - there are groups of functions that basically are libraries and that are supposed to be exported, whether we have all of them used in the tree at given time or not.