From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 644314C98 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:16:58 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1726640220; cv=none; b=WwDgBefgGmcJFSf6F1+xwWUm4HxpeEzAGlNw3E4Wrvw1+SUck5M5yxWPwdCcpJ7DqTDeJQiLs/BrTabYE5FZptU8ziS8EG9FgeyaSW/m6rZvKxGZKFkLo2eOcYm6nXF2Phhl39EboirPHGMhdqT1RLzE7fChqJR10SnLnAD0UPY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1726640220; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Z9dOEclgXjAS0g/M3o24T3FFdUQ7kJJfJ6kqpGHE6i4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=VToR+073+P7hzzDJK/MTKHQJhSLFMxvSTMvgExVDdHOAQK27lKTH3n4GY9fxpQBHuoTOBNiSKrNJotbUc31wK2WACKUv3g5nN2JxWjP+M6AZlWqDohP+Z/oWlD61rpNR/RedG8gDUDX/3JAzfFbSbQKd1Q4U9VzQzdg6JPzRCyA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=3xtDg8pB; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="3xtDg8pB" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=GkMYpHuBQrKKMyleWkYf8GBT0HHZeiHXvJyuSxqzyA0=; b=3xtDg8pBn7CawHQQ0YyhGSrNvE QyBmYGuWA8tnpp88+X2Oyj8i8nSV4s5enNsSY11PQJeY4HGPeit8QO02OWkvHxLz56wNzwXUO+RZk xxuXrCTaur47BROqvDe/wMvOaW0cTctKSzJyLaZcDUCa6OjCd+cUqRcqZ7j3bJ/BFQeLmywgg7DYW JtWCdT46/HgCGXWY6s1l61/mZxzi/i6PJp8LB9ceLMvyvdPnjSZv4LWjCVNdXWH6gN2tQqLrvPhnr NQAZqH9fazsTqCH6NpvtOGqU3ZFVdhoqyOwlJXpCg+EJVu3Z7ufn9JyrNgYQvKvJsmf4CWiq+TTla xzNt9TQg==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.98 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1sqnzl-00000007WnP-3WVj; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:16:57 +0000 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:16:57 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Hildenbrand Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kees@kernel.org Subject: Re: Dead code by symbols Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html 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.