remove-unused-header-file-include-linux-elfnoteh.patch

remove-unused-header-file-include-linux-elfnoteh.patch

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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?

    J

Re: remove-unused-header-file-include-linux-elfnoteh.patch

[Arnd Bergmann]

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.

	Arnd <><

Re: remove-unused-header-file-include-linux-elfnoteh.patch

[Robert P. J. Day]

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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, 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.

i doubt that this is going to make any difference to my script.  that
header file is, AFAICT, not included by any other file in the entire
source tree -- a simple "grep" will demonstrate that.

rday

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Re: remove-unused-header-file-include-linux-elfnoteh.patch

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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