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kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function

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No more print_symbol()/__print_symbol() users left, remove these
symbols.

It was a very old API that encouraged people use continuous lines.
It had been obsoleted by %pS format specifier in a normal printk()
call.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180105102538.GC471@jagdpanzerIV
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Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-01-05 19:25:38 +09:00
committed by Petr Mladek
parent d202d47b5e
commit d2279c9d7f
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@ -464,17 +464,6 @@ int sprint_backtrace(char *buffer, unsigned long address)
return __sprint_symbol(buffer, address, -1, 1);
}
/* Look up a kernel symbol and print it to the kernel messages. */
void __print_symbol(const char *fmt, unsigned long address)
{
char buffer[KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN];
sprint_symbol(buffer, address);
printk(fmt, buffer);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__print_symbol);
/* To avoid using get_symbol_offset for every symbol, we carry prefix along. */
struct kallsym_iter {
loff_t pos;