Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] net/netlink/: possible cleanups

["David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:27:10 +0200

> This patch contains the following possible cleanups plus changes related 
> to them:
> - make the following needlessly global functions static:
>   - attr.c: __nla_reserve()
>   - attr.c: __nla_put()
> - #if 0 the following unused global functions:
>   - attr.c: nla_validate()
>   - attr.c: nla_find()
>   - attr.c: nla_memcpy()
>   - attr.c: nla_memcmp()
>   - attr.c: nla_strcmp()
>   - attr.c: nla_reserve()
>   - genetlink.c: genl_unregister_ops()
> - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
>   - af_netlink.c: netlink_set_nonroot
>   - attr.c: nla_parse
>   - attr.c: nla_strlcpy
>   - attr.c: nla_put
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Bunk-bot, you have to stop.

These interfaces were added so that new users of netlink could
write their code more easily.

Unused does not equate to "comment out or delete".