From 16cf06ecc5e4c3131b6f13b2b296cd715687846f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Tan <Tom.Tan@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:18:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unused public API to_span_ptr

---
 api/include/opentelemetry/trace/span.h | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/span.h b/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/span.h
index be5f5276cd..87b64747cf 100644
--- a/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/span.h
+++ b/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/span.h
@@ -185,13 +185,5 @@ class Span
   virtual bool IsRecording() const noexcept = 0;
 };
 
-template <class SpanType, class TracerType>
-nostd::shared_ptr<trace::Span> to_span_ptr(TracerType *objPtr,
-                                           nostd::string_view name,
-                                           const trace::StartSpanOptions &options)
-{
-  return nostd::shared_ptr<trace::Span>{new (std::nothrow) SpanType{*objPtr, name, options}};
-}
-
 }  // namespace trace
 OPENTELEMETRY_END_NAMESPACE