Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/isdn/capi/capiutil.c: unexportcapi_message2str

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 15:07 +0200, Karsten Keil wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:17:36PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch removes an unused EXPORT_SYMBOL.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > --- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm1-full/drivers/isdn/capi/capiutil.c.old	2006-04-07 10:47:30.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm1-full/drivers/isdn/capi/capiutil.c	2006-04-07 10:47:37.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -855,5 +855,4 @@
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(capi_cmsg_header);
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(capi_cmd2str);
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(capi_cmsg2str);
> > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(capi_message2str);
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(capi_info2str);
> > 
> 
> Yes it is currently unused, but part of the CAPI driver SDK for supporting
> debug messages in capi drivers, so I would tend to let it exported, if here
> are not strong arguments against exporting it.

every export takes space in the binary kernel. There's some 900 of these
unused ones, totalling to about 100Kb of unused bloat. 

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