linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] um: remove unused vdso-syms.lds

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Message-ID: <20180514073728.GA19463@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 09:37:28 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        user-mode-linux-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: remove unused vdso-syms.lds


* Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:

> This file contains symbol values, and was originally linked into
> vmlinux, but I have no idea what it was actually used for.
> 
> Since commit 827880ec260b ("x86/um: thin archives build fix"), it is
> not even linked.  Now it is completely orphan, and no problem has
> been reported.  It is a proof that this file was not needed in the
> first place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
> ---
> 
>  arch/x86/um/vdso/.gitignore |  1 -
>  arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile   | 16 ----------------
>  2 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>

Thanks,

	Ingo