Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:55:23 +0100 | From | Jessica Yu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vmlinux.lds.h: drop unused __vermagic |
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+++ Mathias Krause [10/03/19 20:26 +0100]: >Hi Jessica, > >On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 12:39, Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 21:29, Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> wrote: >> > >> > +++ 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> >> > >> >> Arnd, will you carry this patch through your asm-generic tree or did >> the MAINTAINERS file mislead me here? >> > >looks like Arnd keeps ignoring my Emails. :/ Can you carry this patch >through your module tree? Or do you think I should ask Andrew Morton >instead?
Sure, I'll queue this up in modules-next shortly after the merge window.
Thanks,
Jessica
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