Re: does CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS have any value anymore?

[Arjan van de Ven]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > Stefan Richter wrote:
> > > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > 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.
>
> ok, so maybe its removal file entry should be deleted if it's going to
> hang around.  your call.

the removal entry is/was for the symbols *marked*, not for the 
infrastructure....
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