From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161537AbXD1H3s (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:29:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965496AbXD1H3s (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:29:48 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:50794 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965461AbXD1H3r (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:29:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4632F7EE.6080101@goop.org> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:29:50 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland McGrath CC: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] use elfnote.h to generate vsyscall notes References: <20070428071615.242FC1801A4@magilla.sf.frob.com> In-Reply-To: <20070428071615.242FC1801A4@magilla.sf.frob.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roland McGrath wrote: > Please don't change the section name that way. Does the section name matter? I've been operating under the assumption that it doesn't, other that needing to start with .note. Using .note.vendor means that all the vendor's notes will get grouped properly, but other than that it seems much of a muchness. > I don't see why the macros > should do differently than what was in vsyscall-note.S to begin with. > Well, passing the section name seems redundant unless its actually needed. In this case it will go from .note.kernel-version to .note.Linux, but it will end up being called .note in the final vdso regardless. J