[PATCH] efi/arm64: efistub: remove local copy of linux_banner

[matt@console-pimps.org (Matt Fleming)]

On Fri, 13 Jun, at 01:11:51PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The shared efistub code for ARM and arm64 contains a local copy of linux_banner,
> allowing it to be referenced from separate executables such as the ARM
> decompressor. However, this introduces a dependency on generated header files,
> causing unnecessary rebuilds of the stub itself and, in case of arm64, vmlinux
> which contains it.
> 
> On arm64, the copy is not actually needed since we can reference the original
> symbol directly, and as it turns out, there may be better ways to deal with this
> for ARM as well, so let's remove it from the shared code. If it still needs to
> be reintroduced for ARM later, it should live under arch/arm anyway and not in
> shared code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c |  2 --
>  drivers/firmware/efi/fdt.c   | 10 ----------
>  2 files changed, 12 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center