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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] Add /sys/kernel/notes
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:57:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46956E63.5090607@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070711190434.D0F0C4D0555@magilla.localdomain>

Roland McGrath wrote:
> This patch adds the /sys/kernel/notes magic file.  Reading this delivers
> the contents of the kernel's .notes section.  This lets userland easily
> glean any detailed information about the running kernel's build that was
> stored there at compile time.
>   

Is .notes an allocated section?  I didn't think it necessarily appeared 
in any of the PT_LOAD segments, because the linux/elfnote.h macros don't 
necessarily set "a" on the section.

I have a patch to always do this, and also convert all the note 
generation to C code rather than asm.  If your patch works for you, 
however, it should be completely orthogonal.

    J

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-12  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-11 19:04 [PATCH 6/7] Add /sys/kernel/notes Roland McGrath
2007-07-11 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-11 20:51   ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-11 21:45     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-11 22:04       ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-11 22:17         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-11 22:42           ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-11 22:48             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-11 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-12  0:37   ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-11 23:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-07-12  0:42   ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-12  2:41     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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