linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] aio: remove unused function aio_run

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Message-ID: <20080701082738.GA1293@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2008 04:27:38 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
Cc:	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	linux-aio@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  aio: remove unused function aio_run_iocbs()

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 01:55:50PM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> Can't this function be kept as part of the out-of-tree patch itself? Or is it 
> a module that requires this symbol? I do not see a EXPORT_SYMBOL*() for this, 
> so it cannot be a module depending on this func!?

Yes.  There's very very few reason to keep unused functions around,
and a patch that hasn't been merged forever is not one of those.

Please kill it.

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