3.16.61-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Geoff Levand <[email protected]> commit 9dc5c05f45ca8101025046cda7f8aca8835204f2 upstream. Remove the unneded declaration for a kexec_load() routine. Fixes errors like these when running 'make headers_check': include/uapi/linux/kexec.h: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel Paul said: : The kexec_load declaration isn't very useful for userspace, see the patch : I submitted in http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389791824.17407.9.camel@x220 . : And After my attempt the export of that declaration has also been : discussed in : http://lkml.kernel.org/r/115373b6ac68ee7a305975896e1c4971e8e51d4c.1408731991.git.ge...@infradead.org : : In that last discussion no one has been able to point to an actual user of : it. So, as far as I can tell, no one actually uses it. Which makes : sense, because including this header by itself doesn't give one access to : a useful definition of kexec_load. So why bother with the declaration? Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[email protected]> Acked-by: Paul Bolle <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> Cc: Maximilian Attems <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Marek <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- include/uapi/linux/kexec.h | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h @@ -44,12 +44,6 @@ struct kexec_segment { size_t memsz; }; -/* Load a new kernel image as described by the kexec_segment array - * consisting of passed number of segments at the entry-point address. - * The flags allow different useage types. - */ -extern int kexec_load(void *, size_t, struct kexec_segment *, - unsigned long int); #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ #endif /* _UAPILINUX_KEXEC_H */
