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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Alexander Pateenok <pateenoc@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: remove uml initcalls
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 21:43:32 +0200
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Alexander,

Am Montag, 23. April 2018, 20:20:17 CEST schrieb Alexander Pateenok:
> __uml_initcall() is not used and .uml.initcall.init section is empty:
> 
> $ grep -r '__uml_initcall('
> arch/um/include/shared/init.h:#define __uml_initcall(fn)	\
> $ readelf -s ../umobj/linux | grep __uml_initcall
>  23214: 00000000603b75d8     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT   32 __uml_initcall_start
>  25337: 00000000603b75d8     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT   32 __uml_initcall_end
> 
> So it is unnecessary.

Right. The last user was removed almost 10 years ago by:
d2efa6d5ce14 ("uml: remove the dead TTY_LOG code")

Thanks,
//richard