From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933408AbXCUW3m (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:29:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933886AbXCUW3m (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:29:42 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:60653 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933408AbXCUW3l (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:29:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4601B1D4.8060908@goop.org> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:29:40 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: "Robert P. J. Day" , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: remove-unused-header-file-include-linux-elfnoteh.patch References: <4601A56A.40609@goop.org> <200703212320.35920.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200703212320.35920.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 22:36:42 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> Please don't. We need it. >> >> BTW, I didn't see this one go by, and I couldn't see it searching >> around. Did it get posted to lkml? >> > > I think it was only on the janitor list. It was considered > obviously correct since it does not get installed by > headers_installed and did not seem to be used anywhere in > the kernel. > > Could you explain how this file is used in the kernel? Robert > probably wants to update his script to handle this correctly. It's used in the Xen patch series, which I'm actively trying to upstream at the moment. There are also a couple of other places in the kernel which generate ELF notes, and they could probably be changed to use this common header. J