On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 01:26:03PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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".
Can you give a more detailed answer which parts of my patch you disagree with? Is the export of netlink_set_nonroot that seems to be both present and unused since at least kernel 2.6.0 covered by your statement? Anything else where a removal might be OK? I'll then send a stripped-down patch (if any non-empty subset of my patch is OK). cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html