Re: [PATCH] um: remove unused vdso-syms.lds

Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Mon, 14 May 2018 09:37:28 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.uml.devel,gmane.linux.uml.user
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* Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> wrote:

> This file contains symbol values, and was originally linked into
> vmlinux, but I have no idea what it was actually used for.
> 
> Since commit 827880ec260b ("x86/um: thin archives build fix"), it is
> not even linked.  Now it is completely orphan, and no problem has
> been reported.  It is a proof that this file was not needed in the
> first place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
>  arch/x86/um/vdso/.gitignore |  1 -
>  arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile   | 16 ----------------
>  2 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Thanks,

	Ingo