Author: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @r@ type T; identifier f; @@ static T f (…) { … } @@ identifier r.f; declarer name EXPORT_SYMBOL; @@ -EXPORT_SYMBOL(f); // Furthermore, the function is never used, so its definition is dropped as well. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: …