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Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:40:36 -0700
From:   Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Discard .note.gnu.property sections in generic NOTES
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 06:33:40PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 10:26:17AM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> 
> In general if you're going to CC someone into a thread please put
> a note at the start of your mail explaining why, many of us get
> copied on a lot of irrelevant things for no apparently reason so
> if it's not immediately obvious why we were sent a mail there's
> every chance it'll just be deleted.

Sorry about that.

> > I'm not sure what exactly arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h is doing
> > with this file. Perhaps the author, Mark Brown, can clarify?
> 
> I don't understand the question, what file are you talking about
> here?  arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h is itself a file and I
> couldn't find anything nearby in your mail talking about a file...

Oops, that was a typo, I meant to say "I'm not sure what
arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h is doing with this *note*". To be
more explicit: does ARM64 need .note.gnu.property/NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0
in vmlinux?

Thanks,
Omar