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| author |   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2021-02-02 13:13:34 +0100 |
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| committer |   Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> | 2021-02-08 12:28:07 +0100 |
| commit | 367948220fcefcad1bf0d3d595a06efe0694acae (patch) | |
| tree | 79e3be8a460c5ef2dabc78489926a1a7215d1d65 /init | |
| parent | module: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE (diff) | |
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module: remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL*
EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL* is not actually used anywhere. Remove the
unused functionality as we generally just remove unused code anyway.
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index b77c60f8b963..11b803b45c19 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -2262,25 +2262,8 @@ config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS If unsure, say N. -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 TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" - depends on !UNUSED_SYMBOLS help The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending |