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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2006-06-28 04:26:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-28 14:59:04 -0700 |
| commit | f71d20e961474dde77e6558396efb93d6ac80a4b (patch) | |
| tree | 669610f79521fd173c28fc47bef39ecd4cdf52ab /lib/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | f5e54d6e53a20cef45af7499e86164f0e0d16bb2 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-f71d20e961474dde77e6558396efb93d6ac80a4b.tar.gz lwn-f71d20e961474dde77e6558396efb93d6ac80a4b.zip | |
[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 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 5330911ebd30..e4fcbd12cf6e 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -23,6 +23,22 @@ config MAGIC_SYSRQ keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. +config UNUSED_SYMBOLS + bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols" + default y if X86 + help + Unused but exported symbols make the kernel needlessly bigger. For + that reason most of these unused exports will soon be removed. This + option is provided temporarily to provide a transition period in case + some external kernel module needs one of these symbols anyway. If you + encounter such a case in your module, consider if you are actually + using the right API. (rationale: since nobody in the kernel is using + this in a module, there is a pretty good chance it's actually the + wrong interface to use). If you really need the symbol, please send a + mail to the linux kernel mailing list mentioning the symbol and why + you really need it, and what the merge plan to the mainline kernel for + your module is. + config DEBUG_KERNEL bool "Kernel debugging" help |