From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751213AbWDCQiu (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:38:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751221AbWDCQiu (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:38:50 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47491 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751213AbWDCQit (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:38:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:38:35 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Remove unused exports and save 98Kb of kernel size In-Reply-To: <1143925545.3076.35.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <1143925545.3076.35.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.5 (beta25) (eggplant) (+CVS-20060326) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 Please be careful, many removals in sound will break under certain kernel config (e.g. CONFIG_ISA). Takashi