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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/29] powerpc: Rename "notes" PT_NOTE to "note"
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:11:43 -0700
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To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 03:25:19AM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 05:05:41PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > The Program Header identifiers are internal to the linker scripts. In
> > preparation for moving the NOTES segment declaration into RO_DATA,
> > standardize the identifier for the PT_NOTE entry to "note" as used by
> > all other architectures that emit PT_NOTE.
> 
> All other archs are wrong, and "notes" is a much better name.  This
> segment does not contain a single "note", but multiple "notes".

True, but the naming appears to be based off the Program Header name of
"PT_NOTE". Regardless, it is an entirely internal-to-the-linker-script
identifier, so I am just consolidating on a common name with the least
number of collateral changes.

-- 
Kees Cook