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

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Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:27:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	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

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, 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.

i doubt that this is going to make any difference to my script.  that
header file is, AFAICT, not included by any other file in the entire
source tree -- a simple "grep" will demonstrate that.

rday

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