On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 05:38:26AM -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> I ran a report to extract export-symbol usage by kernel modules. The results
> are at http://www.sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/export_report.txt
>
> The report lists:
> 1. All the exported symbols and their usage counts by in-kernel modules.
> 2. for each in-kernel module, lists the modules and the exported symbols
> from those modules, that it depends on.
>
> Highlights:
> On x86 architecture
> (1) 880 exported symbols not used by any in-kernel modules.
> (2) 1792 exported symbols used only once.
>
> I hope this report/tool shall help all inkernel modules to revisit their usage
> of kernel interfaces.
>
> This patch integrates the report-generator into the kernel build process. After
> applying this patch, invoke 'make export_report' and it creates the report in
> Documentation/export_report.txt
>...
I like your patch, but I have observed two issues:
- please don't force an allmodconfig, simply use the currently compiled
kernel
- please output to stdout instead of a fixed file
This way, it would also be consistent with other Makefile targets like
namespacecheck.
cu
Adrian
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