From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932239AbWDAVFt (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Apr 2006 16:05:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932253AbWDAVFt (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Apr 2006 16:05:49 -0500 Received: from morbo.e-centre.net ([66.154.82.3]:3583 "EHLO cubert.e-centre.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932239AbWDAVFs (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Apr 2006 16:05:48 -0500 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1143925546-24218-4-0 X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.3.1.19:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Remove unused exports and save 98Kb of kernel size Subject: Remove unused exports and save 98Kb of kernel size From: Arjan van de Ven To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:05:45 +0200 Message-Id: <1143925545.3076.35.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=4.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.02, rules version 3.0.10357 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I've made a patch to remove all EXPORT_SYMBOL's that aren't used in the kernel; it's too big for the list so it can be found at http://www.kernelmorons.org/unexport.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34476416 Apr 1 21:59 vmlinux.before -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34378112 Apr 1 22:48 vmlinux.after As you can see this saves 98Kb kernel size... that's not peanuts. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven