linux-kernel - Re: any interest in unreferenced header files throughout the tree?

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Message-ID: <20091004185655.GB1378@ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 4 Oct 2009 20:56:55 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: any interest in unreferenced header files throughout the tree?

On Tue 2009-09-29 19:11:55, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   with a minor tweak to one of my scripts, i can now identify all
> header files throughout the source tree that no one seems to be using,
> and i can generate that output broken down as usual by logical
> subdirectories.
> 
>   as a simple example, under fs/, there appears to be a single unused
> header file:
> 
>   fs/xfs/xfs_refcache.h
> 
> if there's interest, i can generate output for the entire tree and
> post it at the normal wiki location.

Better yet post it to the list.

And if there are headers that are unused now and were unused in
2.6.25... I guess you can just submit patch removing those.

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