Re: [PATCH 1/3] export symbol report: overview

[Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 18:21 -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> This patch series enables on-demand report generation of export symbol usage by
> inkernel modules.
> 
> A report generated by executing 
>  	make allmodconfig
>  	make exportcheck
> is available at http://www.sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/new_export_report.txt
> 
> The same report can also be generated by executing from the top level
> directory:
> 	perl scripts/export_report.pl
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks to Adrian Bunk, Arjan, Sam Ravnborg, Dagfinn Ilmari for their
> valuable comments. All comments have been incorporated.

Since I have not heard anything bad about these patches, shall I request
Andrew to apply them to his tree?

RP

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