Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2019 21:29:39 +0100 | From | Jessica Yu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vmlinux.lds.h: drop unused __vermagic |
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+++ Mathias Krause [30/12/18 13:40 +0100]: >The reference to '__vermagic' is a relict from v2.5 times. And even >there it had a very short life time, from v2.5.59 (commit 1d411b80ee18 >("Module Sanity Check") in the historic tree) to v2.5.69 (commit >67ac5b866bda ("[PATCH] complete modinfo section")). > >Neither current kernels nor modules contain a '__vermagic' section any >more, so get rid of it. > >Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> >Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> >Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Thanks for the cleanup.
Reviewed-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
>--- > include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > >diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h >index 3d7a6a9c2370..530ce1e7a1ec 100644 >--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h >+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h >@@ -332,7 +332,6 @@ > __start_rodata = .; \ > *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*) \ > RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA /* Read only after init */ \ >- KEEP(*(__vermagic)) /* Kernel version magic */ \ > . = ALIGN(8); \ > __start___tracepoints_ptrs = .; \ > KEEP(*(__tracepoints_ptrs)) /* Tracepoints: pointer array */ \ >-- >2.19.2 >
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