[PATCH] vmlinux.lds.h: drop unused __vermagic

From: Mathias Krause
Date: Sun Dec 30 2018 - 07:40:21 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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