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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] drivers/acpi: remove unused exported functions
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On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 16:50, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The patch below completely removes 7 functions that were
> EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed but had exactly zero users in the kernel and makes
> another one that was previously EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed static.
>
> It also removes another unused global function to completely remove
> drivers/acpi/hardware/hwtimer.c which contained no function used
> anywhere in the kernel.
>
> Please comment on whether this patch is correct or whether in-kernel
> users of these functions are pending.
>
>
> diffstat output:
> drivers/acpi/acpi_ksyms.c | 8 -
> drivers/acpi/events/evxfevnt.c | 191 -----------------------------
> drivers/acpi/hardware/Makefile | 2
> drivers/acpi/hardware/hwtimer.c | 200
> -------------------------------
> drivers/acpi/resources/rsxface.c | 52 --------
> drivers/acpi/scan.c | 6
> drivers/acpi/utilities/utxface.c | 89 -------------
> include/acpi/achware.h | 17 --
> include/acpi/acpi_bus.h | 1
> include/acpi/acpixf.h | 24 ---
> 10 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 584 deletions(-)

No, I can't apply this one as-is.
Some of these routines are not called now
simply because Linux/ACPI is evolving and we don't
yet take advantage of some of the things supported
by ACPICA core we use.

thanks,
-Len


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