Re: [PATCH] scripts: dtc: libfdt: fdt_rw.c: Remove some unused functions

[Rob Herring]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Rickard Strandqvist
<rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Removes some functions that are not used anywhere:
> fdt_delprop() fdt_add_mem_rsv()
>
> This was partially found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_rw.c |   32 -----------------------------
>  scripts/dtc/libfdt/libfdt.h |   48 -------------------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 80 deletions(-)

These sources are just imported unmodified from libfdt, so we don't
want to be changing them in the kernel. Also, I think these functions
could be needed at some point. Getting -ffunction-sections to work
with the kernel would be the right way to solve this IMHO.

Rob
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