metalman: delete unreferenced helpers - #680
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netboot.OCICache loses five default-architecture wrappers - DigestFor, ImageDir, IsCached, Metadata and InvalidateRef - each a one-liner delegating to its ...ForArchitecture counterpart with v1alpha3.DefaultPXEArchitecture. The architecture-aware variants are what the reconciler and the netboot handlers call; the wrappers are what multi-architecture support left behind. InvalidateRefForArchitecture goes with them: once InvalidateRef was gone it had no caller of its own. commands.PrintStep had no reference. The cyan constant it was the only user of goes with it; the identically named constant in cmd/kubectl-unbounded/app/machine_ops.go is live and untouched. machineops' reasonWaitingForOlderOperation is an unexported constant with no reader. It sits in a const group whose other members are all live, which is why `unused` never reported it, and the string "WaitingForOlderOperation" does not appear anywhere else in the tree either. Refs #670
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Part of the #670 dead-code sweep, split by component. The tooling that produced these findings is #673; this PR is deletions only and is independent of the other eight — the file sets are disjoint, so they can be reviewed and merged in any order and in parallel.
Why two analyzers were needed to find this
unusedcannot see dead exported code underinternal/. That is a documented design decision, not a gap:unused/unused.go:48-62holds that a package uses its exported named types and a named type uses its exported methods, so every method on an exported type is transitively live because the type is exported.x/tools/cmd/deadcodedoes not close that gap on its own either.x/tools/go/callgraph/rta/rta.go:281-287,433-437— converting a value to an interface materializes its runtime type and marks every exported method of that type reachable, because reflection could call any of them. Onevar i any = xanywhere buys all ofx's exported methods a clean bill of health.So #673 adds both
deadcodeandhack/cmd/unreferenced, which resolves identifiers instead of tracing reachability. Neither subsumes the other, and findings below are attributed to whichever one saw them.metalman: delete unreferenced helpers
netboot.OCICache loses five default-architecture wrappers - DigestFor,
ImageDir, IsCached, Metadata and InvalidateRef - each a one-liner delegating to
its ...ForArchitecture counterpart with v1alpha3.DefaultPXEArchitecture. The
architecture-aware variants are what the reconciler and the netboot handlers
call; the wrappers are what multi-architecture support left behind.
InvalidateRefForArchitecture goes with them: once InvalidateRef was gone it had
no caller of its own.
commands.PrintStep had no reference. The cyan constant it was the only user of
goes with it; the identically named constant in
cmd/kubectl-unbounded/app/machine_ops.go is live and untouched.
machineops' reasonWaitingForOlderOperation is an unexported constant with no
reader. It sits in a const group whose other members are all live, which is why
unusednever reported it, and the string "WaitingForOlderOperation" does notappear anywhere else in the tree either.
Refs #670
Verification
go build ./...,go vet ./...,golangci-lintover the touched trees (0 issues),make fmtproducing no diff, andgo build -tags e2e,integrationtest,storageboundary ./.... Full suite runs in CI.The eight deletion branches were reassembled onto the tooling commits and diffed against the original combined branch: byte-identical, so nothing was lost or duplicated in the split.