From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] Add /sys/kernel/notes
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:57:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46956E63.5090607@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070711190434.D0F0C4D0555@magilla.localdomain>
Roland McGrath wrote:
> This patch adds the /sys/kernel/notes magic file. Reading this delivers
> the contents of the kernel's .notes section. This lets userland easily
> glean any detailed information about the running kernel's build that was
> stored there at compile time.
>
Is .notes an allocated section? I didn't think it necessarily appeared
in any of the PT_LOAD segments, because the linux/elfnote.h macros don't
necessarily set "a" on the section.
I have a patch to always do this, and also convert all the note
generation to C code rather than asm. If your patch works for you,
however, it should be completely orthogonal.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-11 19:04 [PATCH 6/7] Add /sys/kernel/notes Roland McGrath
2007-07-11 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-11 20:51 ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-11 21:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-11 22:04 ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-11 22:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-11 22:42 ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-11 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-11 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-12 0:37 ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-11 23:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-07-12 0:42 ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-12 2:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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