On 15.04.2021 14:09, Julien Grall wrote: > On 26/01/2021 09:53, Jan Beulich wrote: >> While for the original library's purposes these functions of course want >> to be externally exposed, we don't need this, and we also don't want >> this both to prevent unintended use and to keep the name space tidy. >> (When functions have no callers at all, wrap them with a suitable >> #ifdef.) This has the added benefit of reducing the resulting binary >> size - while this is all .init code, it's still desirable to not carry >> dead code. > > So why do we keep the code if it is not used? Do you expect it to be > re-used in the future?
I expect future patch imports from Linux to be easier to apply when the code is at least fundamentally the same as what we took from there originally. Jan
