Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754357AbXINGGu (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:06:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751369AbXINGGm (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:06:42 -0400 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:55498 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751356AbXINGGm (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:06:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:08:05 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Aloni , Bernhard Walle Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ELF note with Linux version Message-ID: <20070914060805.GA32169@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20070904150018.GA4357@suse.de> <46DFD825.2020109@goop.org> <20070913144228.2efcd5d9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070913221340.GA29181@uranus.ravnborg.org> <46E9BD3D.4050102@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46E9BD3D.4050102@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1263 Lines: 33 On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 03:44:13PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > I would rather see allt this ELFNOTE stuff reverted. > > It causes troubles for several archs and is at the moment > > being discussed at arm-kernel for example. > > > > Having it reverted and then applied when it is ready for all archs would > > be preferred. > > > > What problems does it cause on other archs? It should be > cross-architecture. > > > On top of this I never understood the actual purpose of it... > > It was originally there to put ELF notes into the vdso objects. I'm > using it to create notes in vmlinux for Xen, and apparently people are > using it to put other metadata into their kernel images. >From a post on arm-kernel: > With build-id binutils (e.g. the latest bintuils 2.18), objcopy produces > a 3.1 Gbytes Image file. This seems outright silly. Either we should revert the notes changes or someone caring about it should sweep all archs and make sure it does not hurt there. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/