linux/init/version.c
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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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
* linux/init/version.c
*
* Copyright (C) 1992 Theodore Ts'o
*
* May be freely distributed as part of Linux.
*/
#include <generated/compile.h>
#include <linux/build-salt.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/uts.h>
#include <linux/utsname.h>
#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
#include <linux/version.h>
#include <linux/proc_ns.h>
struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = {
.ns.count = REFCOUNT_INIT(2),
.name = {
.sysname = UTS_SYSNAME,
.nodename = UTS_NODENAME,
.release = UTS_RELEASE,
.version = UTS_VERSION,
.machine = UTS_MACHINE,
.domainname = UTS_DOMAINNAME,
},
.user_ns = &init_user_ns,
.ns.inum = PROC_UTS_INIT_INO,
#ifdef CONFIG_UTS_NS
.ns.ops = &utsns_operations,
#endif
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_uts_ns);
/* FIXED STRINGS! Don't touch! */
const char linux_banner[] =
"Linux version " UTS_RELEASE " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@"
LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ") (" LINUX_COMPILER ") " UTS_VERSION "\n";
const char linux_proc_banner[] =
"%s version %s"
" (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ")"
" (" LINUX_COMPILER ") %s\n";
BUILD_SALT;