Re: Dead code by symbols
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Sep 18 2024 - 02:17:08 EST
On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 01:39:35PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > Now, it does take some more guesswork, for example an unused function
> > which was added a couple of years back, might be something that's
> > there for consistency,
>
> I know people will find reasons to do something like that, but we really
> *shouldn't* be maintaining / dragging along dead code that nobody might ever
> use.
There never is any reason to keep dead code around.