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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remove unused exports and save 98Kb of kernel size
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:38:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hlkumaa2c.wl%tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1143925545.3076.35.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

At Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:05:45 +0200,
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> 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 <arjan@kernelmorons.org>

Please be careful, many removals in sound will break under certain
kernel config (e.g. CONFIG_ISA).


Takashi

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-03 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-01 21:05 Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-01 21:18 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-04-03 14:06   ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-04 16:00     ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-04-03 14:10 ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-07  0:41   ` Valerie Henson
2006-04-03 16:38 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]

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