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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon May 14 2018 - 03:37:36 EST



* Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> arch/x86/um/vdso/.gitignore | 1 -
> arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile | 16 ----------------
> 2 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Ingo