Re: [PATCH] kallsyms: make arch_get_kallsym() static

From: Ben Dooks
Date: Fri Jul 22 2022 - 04:09:34 EST


On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 08:22:39AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 04:10:40PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> > The arch_get_kallsym() function is not used anywhere in the kernel
> > now, so it should at-least be static or just be removed as there
> > are no users. Making it static fixes the following sparse warning:
> >
> > kernel/kallsyms.c:590:12: warning: symbol 'arch_get_kallsym' was not declared. Should it be static?
>
> It fixes the warning, but isn't exactly useful. Please just remove it,
> get_ksymbol_arch and iter->pos_arch_end entirely instead.

Ok, probably the best. I didn't have time to do any archeaology on it
to find out if it has ever been used.

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