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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kees@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dead code by symbols
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:16:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZupwWT5ZEHFmWIXz@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d289061d-7dc8-41d7-a166-4b3b8dce886d@redhat.com>

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.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-09-18  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-16 12:33 Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2024-09-17 11:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-09-17 12:15   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2024-09-18  6:16   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-09-18 10:55     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2024-09-19  8:13       ` David Hildenbrand

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