From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jessica Yu Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmlinux.lds.h: drop unused __vermagic Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:55:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20190311115523.GA30951@linux-8ccs> References: <1546173604-26066-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com> <20190102202938.GA26600@linux-8ccs> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mathias Krause Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell , Arnd Bergmann List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org +++ Mathias Krause [10/03/19 20:26 +0100]: >Hi Jessica, > >On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 12:39, Mathias Krause wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 21:29, Jessica Yu wrote: >> > >> > +++ Mathias Krause [30/12/18 13:40 +0100]: >> > >The reference to '__vermagic' is a relict from v2.5 times. And even >> > >there it had a very short life time, from v2.5.59 (commit 1d411b80ee18 >> > >("Module Sanity Check") in the historic tree) to v2.5.69 (commit >> > >67ac5b866bda ("[PATCH] complete modinfo section")). >> > > >> > >Neither current kernels nor modules contain a '__vermagic' section any >> > >more, so get rid of it. >> > > >> > >Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause >> > >Cc: Rusty Russell >> > >Cc: Jessica Yu >> > >> > Thanks for the cleanup. >> > >> > Reviewed-by: Jessica Yu >> > >> >> Arnd, will you carry this patch through your asm-generic tree or did >> the MAINTAINERS file mislead me here? >> > >looks like Arnd keeps ignoring my Emails. :/ Can you carry this patch >through your module tree? Or do you think I should ask Andrew Morton >instead? Sure, I'll queue this up in modules-next shortly after the merge window. Thanks, Jessica