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Message-ID: <4601B1D4.8060908@goop.org>
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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