Re: [PATCH 13/13] module: remove EXPORY_UNUSED_SYMBOL*

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jan 28 2021 - 11:10:47 EST


On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 02:49:38PM +0100, Jessica Yu wrote:
>> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_SIG
>> /* Signature was verified. */
>> bool sig_ok;
>> @@ -592,7 +580,6 @@ struct symsearch {
>> GPL_ONLY,
>> WILL_BE_GPL_ONLY,
>> } license;
>> - bool unused;
>> };

> Thanks for the cleanups. While we're here, I noticed that struct
> symsearch is only used internally in kernel/module.c, so I don't think
> it actually needs to be in include/linux/module.h. I don't see it used
> anywhere else. We could move maybe that to kernel/module-internal.h.

I've added a patch to just move it directly into module.c.