linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] xen: nuke the ballon files

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Message-ID: <48E4EA1C.2090808@goop.org>
Date:	Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:34:52 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] xen: nuke the ballon files

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Investigating the unused static files in the balloon code, I discovered
> that the balloon code is not used at all.
>
> The header file is one big #if 0 and all the functions in the C file
> is static. There is no caller like init_module to hook to any of
> these functions. Basically, this code is one big patch of dead code
> wasting space on my hard drive.
>
> This patch removes the balloon code altogether since there are no
> users.
>   

Er, I think you should back away from that crack pipe.

> -subsys_initcall(balloon_init);

    J
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