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

From: Richard Weinberger <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 23:18:40 +0100

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