Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [RFC PATCH 1/3] export symbol report: overview | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:36:53 -0700 (PDT) | From | (Ram Pai) |
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This patch series enables on-demand report generation of export symbol usage by inkernel modules. The report is available at
A report generated by executing make allmodconfig make export_report is available at http://www.sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/export_report.txt
This report lists: 1. the usage count of all exported symbols by in-kernel modules. 2. For each in-kernel module lists a) the in-kernel modules it depend on. b) list of exported symbols from that in-kernel modules it depend on.
Highlights: On x86 architecture (1) 880 exported symbols not used by any in-kernel modules. (2) 1792 exported symbols used only once.
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