[RFC] remove dead code from link_elf.c

[Oliver Pinter]

On 5/15/14, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 03:36:51PM +0200, Oliver Pinter wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I found that the SPARSE_MAPPING used only in sys/kern/link_elf.c file,
>> and no other place in kernel, nor in generated codes in /usr/obj/...
>>
>> op at pandora-d opBSD.git> git grep -i SPARSE_MAPPING
>> sys/kern/link_elf.c:#ifdef SPARSE_MAPPING
>> sys/kern/link_elf.c:#ifdef SPARSE_MAPPING
>> sys/kern/link_elf.c:#ifdef SPARSE_MAPPING
>> sys/kern/link_elf.c:#ifdef SPARSE_MAPPING
>> sys/kern/link_elf.c:#ifdef SPARSE_MAPPING
>> sys/kern/link_elf.c:#ifdef SPARSE_MAPPING
>> sys/kern/link_elf.c:#ifdef SPARSE_MAPPING
>>
>> I proposed to remove the old/dead codes. Patch attached. Tested on amd64.
>
> I agree that SPARSE_MAPPING could go away.  But your testing is void,
> since link_elf.c is practically not used on amd64, which utilizes object
> file format for klds.
>

Hi kib@

Thanks for the quick response.