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Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:03:53 +0100
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] minor ELF addition
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>>> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> 08.11.05 23:56:56 >>>
>"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>>
>> A trivial addition to the ELF definitions.
>> 
>> ...
>>  #define STT_FILE    4
>> +#define STT_COMMON  5
>> +#define STT_TLS     6
>
>Is there any particular reason for adding these, or is it just a
>completeness thing?

NLKD needs STT_COMMON. STT_TLS is just for completeness (and probably
not of much use in the kernel, though Andi seemed to have at least
considered using TLS for x86-64's per-CPU data).