linux/init
Masahiro Yamada 073a9ecb3a 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 197dcffc8b ("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 4eb9241127 ("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>
2021-02-26 09:41:04 -08:00
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calibrate.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
do_mounts_initrd.c Merge branch 'hch.init_path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 09:40:34 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c init: add an init_unlink helper 2020-07-31 08:17:52 +02:00
do_mounts.c block: merge struct block_device and struct hd_struct 2020-12-01 14:53:40 -07:00
do_mounts.h init: add an init_mknod helper 2020-07-31 08:17:54 +02:00
init_task.c fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation 2021-01-29 15:07:32 -05:00
initramfs.c initramfs: fix clang build failure 2020-12-11 14:02:14 -08:00
Kconfig Kbuild updates for v5.12 2021-02-25 10:17:31 -08:00
main.c lib: stackdepot: add support to disable stack depot 2021-02-26 09:41:04 -08:00
Makefile md: move the early init autodetect code to drivers/md/ 2020-07-16 15:34:47 +02:00
noinitramfs.c init: add an init_mknod helper 2020-07-31 08:17:54 +02:00
version.c init/version.c: remove Version_<LINUX_VERSION_CODE> symbol 2021-02-26 09:41:04 -08:00