[PATCH] arch: powerpc: kernel: signal_32.c: Remove unused function

Rickard Strandqvist rickard_strandqvist at spectrumdigital.se
Mon Dec 8 10:11:00 AEDT 2014


Hi

Ok, sorry :-(

But I really do not. I've hacked together a script that will scan all
the code for the function, and test builds with some different config
options turned on.


Kind regards
Rickard Strandqvist


2014-12-07 23:18 GMT+01:00 Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>:
> Am 07.12.2014 um 23:07 schrieb Rickard Strandqvist:
>> Remove the function sys_debug_setcontext() that is not used anywhere.
>>
>> This was partially found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
>
> Please don't blindly trust code analysis tools.
> The function you're removing *is* in use.
>
>   LD      init/built-in.o
> arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
> (.rodata+0x744): undefined reference to `sys_debug_setcontext'
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>
> Thanks,
> //richard


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