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

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Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:29:40 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: remove-unused-header-file-include-linux-elfnoteh.patch

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
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