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

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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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