Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:29:40 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: remove-unused-header-file-include-linux-elfnoteh.patch |
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Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 22:36:42 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> Please don't. We need it. >> >> BTW, I didn't see this one go by, and I couldn't see it searching >> around. Did it get posted to lkml? >> > > I think it was only on the janitor list. It was considered > obviously correct since it does not get installed by > headers_installed and did not seem to be used anywhere in > the kernel. > > Could you explain how this file is used in the kernel? Robert > probably wants to update his script to handle this correctly.
It's used in the Xen patch series, which I'm actively trying to upstream at the moment. There are also a couple of other places in the kernel which generate ELF notes, and they could probably be changed to use this common header.
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