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| author | Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> | 2021-02-25 17:22:11 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-02-26 09:41:04 -0800 |
| commit | 073a9ecb3a73401662430bb955aedeac1de643d1 (patch) | |
| tree | c181e1854d2d9c3c9c75ccfc0ad40c0f1d985173 /init | |
| parent | 5b8f82e1a17695c9e5fec5842b234967782d7e5b (diff) | |
| download | lwn-073a9ecb3a73401662430bb955aedeac1de643d1.tar.gz lwn-073a9ecb3a73401662430bb955aedeac1de643d1.zip | |
init/version.c: remove Version_<LINUX_VERSION_CODE> symbol
This code hunk creates a Version_<LINUX_VERSION_CODE> symbol if
CONFIG_KALLSYMS is disabled. For example, building the kernel v5.10 for
allnoconfig creates the following symbol:
$ nm vmlinux | grep Version_
c116b028 B Version_330240
There is no in-tree user of this symbol.
Commit 197dcffc8ba0 ("init/version.c: define version_string only if
CONFIG_KALLSYMS is not defined") mentions that Version_* is only used
with ksymoops.
However, a commit in the pre-git era [1] had added the statement,
"ksymoops is useless on 2.6. Please use the Oops in its original format".
That statement existed until commit 4eb9241127a0 ("Documentation:
admin-guide: update bug-hunting.rst") finally removed the stale
ksymoops information.
This symbol is no longer needed.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=ad68b2f085f5c79e4759ca2d13947b3c885ee831
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210120033452.2895170-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Guilak <guilak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/version.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/init/version.c b/init/version.c index 80d2b7566b39..92afc782b043 100644 --- a/init/version.c +++ b/init/version.c @@ -16,14 +16,6 @@ #include <linux/version.h> #include <linux/proc_ns.h> -#ifndef CONFIG_KALLSYMS -#define version(a) Version_ ## a -#define version_string(a) version(a) - -extern int version_string(LINUX_VERSION_CODE); -int version_string(LINUX_VERSION_CODE); -#endif - struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = { .ns.count = REFCOUNT_INIT(2), .name = { |