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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703101723480.28938@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:24:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Delete unused header file.
Delete apparently unused header file include/linux/elfnote.h.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com>
---
not sure who's responsible for this.
diff --git a/include/linux/elfnote.h b/include/linux/elfnote.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 67396db..0000000
--- a/include/linux/elfnote.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-#ifndef _LINUX_ELFNOTE_H
-#define _LINUX_ELFNOTE_H
-/*
- * Helper macros to generate ELF Note structures, which are put into a
- * PT_NOTE segment of the final vmlinux image. These are useful for
- * including name-value pairs of metadata into the kernel binary (or
- * modules?) for use by external programs.
- *
- * Each note has three parts: a name, a type and a desc. The name is
- * intended to distinguish the note's originator, so it would be a
- * company, project, subsystem, etc; it must be in a suitable form for
- * use in a section name. The type is an integer which is used to tag
- * the data, and is considered to be within the "name" namespace (so
- * "FooCo"'s type 42 is distinct from "BarProj"'s type 42). The
- * "desc" field is the actual data. There are no constraints on the
- * desc field's contents, though typically they're fairly small.
- *
- * All notes from a given NAME are put into a section named
- * .note.NAME. When the kernel image is finally linked, all the notes
- * are packed into a single .notes section, which is mapped into the
- * PT_NOTE segment. Because notes for a given name are grouped into
- * the same section, they'll all be adjacent the output file.
- *
- * This file defines macros for both C and assembler use. Their
- * syntax is slightly different, but they're semantically similar.
- *
- * See the ELF specification for more detail about ELF notes.
- */
-
-#ifdef __ASSEMBLER__
-/*
- * Generate a structure with the same shape as Elf{32,64}_Nhdr (which
- * turn out to be the same size and shape), followed by the name and
- * desc data with appropriate padding. The 'desctype' argument is the
- * assembler pseudo op defining the type of the data e.g. .asciz while
- * 'descdata' is the data itself e.g. "hello, world".
- *
- * e.g. ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 42, .asciz, "forty-two")
- * ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 12, .long, 0xdeadbeef)
- */
-#define ELFNOTE(name, type, desctype, descdata) \
-.pushsection .note.name ; \
- .align 4 ; \
- .long 2f - 1f /* namesz */ ; \
- .long 4f - 3f /* descsz */ ; \
- .long type ; \
-1:.asciz "name" ; \
-2:.align 4 ; \
-3:desctype descdata ; \
-4:.align 4 ; \
-.popsection ;
-#else /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */
-#include <linux/elf.h>
-/*
- * Use an anonymous structure which matches the shape of
- * Elf{32,64}_Nhdr, but includes the name and desc data. The size and
- * type of name and desc depend on the macro arguments. "name" must
- * be a literal string, and "desc" must be passed by value. You may
- * only define one note per line, since __LINE__ is used to generate
- * unique symbols.
- */
-#define _ELFNOTE_PASTE(a,b) a##b
-#define _ELFNOTE(size, name, unique, type, desc) \
- static const struct { \
- struct elf##size##_note _nhdr; \
- unsigned char _name[sizeof(name)] \
- __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(Elf##size##_Word)))); \
- typeof(desc) _desc \
- __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(Elf##size##_Word)))); \
- } _ELFNOTE_PASTE(_note_, unique) \
- __attribute_used__ \
- __attribute__((section(".note." name), \
- aligned(sizeof(Elf##size##_Word)), \
- unused)) = { \
- { \
- sizeof(name), \
- sizeof(desc), \
- type, \
- }, \
- name, \
- desc \
- }
-#define ELFNOTE(size, name, type, desc) \
- _ELFNOTE(size, name, __LINE__, type, desc)
-
-#define ELFNOTE32(name, type, desc) ELFNOTE(32, name, type, desc)
-#define ELFNOTE64(name, type, desc) ELFNOTE(64, name, type, desc)
-#endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */
-
-#endif /* _LINUX_ELFNOTE_H */
--
========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
========================================================================
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