Re: does CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS have any value anymore?

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Stefan Richter wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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it's not clear if that means that it was a *one-time* transition
aid which is now unnecessary, or whether it's an *ongoing* aid which
might be used at any time.  currently, there are no invocations of
EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL[_GPL] anywhere in the tree.  so does that mean
this feature can be tossed?  or might it still be used every so often?

it's one of those pieces of infrastructure that get used from time to time to phase out symbol exports... we should be more agressive about that; about 1/3rd of the exports is not used by anything in linux, yet each symbol costs about 100 bytes of memory at runtime.
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