linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/13] module: remove EXPORY_UNUSED

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Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:09:57 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/13] module: remove EXPORY_UNUSED_SYMBOL*

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 02:49:38PM +0100, Jessica Yu wrote:
>> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_SIG
>> 	/* Signature was verified. */
>> 	bool sig_ok;
>> @@ -592,7 +580,6 @@ struct symsearch {
>> 		GPL_ONLY,
>> 		WILL_BE_GPL_ONLY,
>> 	} license;
>> -	bool unused;
>> };

> Thanks for the cleanups. While we're here, I noticed that struct
> symsearch is only used internally in kernel/module.c, so I don't think
> it actually needs to be in include/linux/module.h. I don't see it used
> anywhere else. We could move maybe that to kernel/module-internal.h.

I've added a patch to just move it directly into module.c.