From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/7] sections.h: add sections header to collect all section info Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:23:29 -0800 Message-ID: <20160219162329.GA24924@kroah.com> References: <1455889559-9428-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@kernel.org> <1455889559-9428-2-git-send-email-mcgrof@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49695 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751732AbcBSQXa (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:23:30 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1455889559-9428-2-git-send-email-mcgrof@kernel.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, luto@amacapital.net, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, david.vrabel@citrix.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, mcb30@ipxe.org, jgross@suse.com, ming.lei@canonical.com, arnd@arndb.de, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, benh@kernel.crashing.org, jbaron@akamai.com, ananth@in.ibm.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 05:45:53AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Linux makes extensive use of custom ELF header sections, > documentation for these are well scatterred. Unify this > documentation in a central place. Minor questions: > + > + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public > + License along with this documentation; if not, write to the Free > + Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, > + MA 02111-1307 USA > + Unless you are willing to personally track the office moves of the FSF for the next 20+ years, just drop this paragraph please :) > +++ b/include/linux/sections.h > @@ -0,0 +1,224 @@ > +#ifndef _LINUX_SECTIONS_H > +#define _LINUX_SECTIONS_H > +/* > + * Linux ELF sections > + * > + * Copyright (C) 2016 Luis R. Rodriguez > + * > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > + * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > + * (at your option) any later version. Do you really mean "any later version"? > + * Due to this file being licensed under the GPL there is controversy over > + * whether this permits you to write a module that #includes this file > + * without placing your module under the GPL. Please consult a lawyer for > + * advice before doing this. Interesting wording, I don't think there's any "controversy" here, so I'd drop that word if at all possible. thanks, greg k-h