Delete apparently unused header file include/linux/elfnote.h.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---

  not sure who's responsible for this.

diff --git a/include/linux/elfnote.h b/include/linux/elfnote.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 67396db..0000000
--- a/include/linux/elfnote.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-#ifndef _LINUX_ELFNOTE_H
-#define _LINUX_ELFNOTE_H
-/*
- * Helper macros to generate ELF Note structures, which are put into a
- * PT_NOTE segment of the final vmlinux image.  These are useful for
- * including name-value pairs of metadata into the kernel binary (or
- * modules?) for use by external programs.
- *
- * Each note has three parts: a name, a type and a desc.  The name is
- * intended to distinguish the note's originator, so it would be a
- * company, project, subsystem, etc; it must be in a suitable form for
- * use in a section name.  The type is an integer which is used to tag
- * the data, and is considered to be within the "name" namespace (so
- * "FooCo"'s type 42 is distinct from "BarProj"'s type 42).  The
- * "desc" field is the actual data.  There are no constraints on the
- * desc field's contents, though typically they're fairly small.
- *
- * All notes from a given NAME are put into a section named
- * .note.NAME.  When the kernel image is finally linked, all the notes
- * are packed into a single .notes section, which is mapped into the
- * PT_NOTE segment.  Because notes for a given name are grouped into
- * the same section, they'll all be adjacent the output file.
- *
- * This file defines macros for both C and assembler use.  Their
- * syntax is slightly different, but they're semantically similar.
- *
- * See the ELF specification for more detail about ELF notes.
- */
-
-#ifdef __ASSEMBLER__
-/*
- * Generate a structure with the same shape as Elf{32,64}_Nhdr (which
- * turn out to be the same size and shape), followed by the name and
- * desc data with appropriate padding.  The 'desctype' argument is the
- * assembler pseudo op defining the type of the data e.g. .asciz while
- * 'descdata' is the data itself e.g.  "hello, world".
- *
- * e.g. ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 42, .asciz, "forty-two")
- *      ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 12, .long, 0xdeadbeef)
- */
-#define ELFNOTE(name, type, desctype, descdata)        \
-.pushsection .note.name                        ;       \
-  .align 4                             ;       \
-  .long 2f - 1f                /* namesz */    ;       \
-  .long 4f - 3f                /* descsz */    ;       \
-  .long type                           ;       \
-1:.asciz "name"                                ;       \
-2:.align 4                             ;       \
-3:desctype descdata                    ;       \
-4:.align 4                             ;       \
-.popsection                            ;
-#else  /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */
-#include <linux/elf.h>
-/*
- * Use an anonymous structure which matches the shape of
- * Elf{32,64}_Nhdr, but includes the name and desc data.  The size and
- * type of name and desc depend on the macro arguments.  "name" must
- * be a literal string, and "desc" must be passed by value.  You may
- * only define one note per line, since __LINE__ is used to generate
- * unique symbols.
- */
-#define _ELFNOTE_PASTE(a,b)    a##b
-#define _ELFNOTE(size, name, unique, type, desc)                       \
-       static const struct {                                           \
-               struct elf##size##_note _nhdr;                          \
-               unsigned char _name[sizeof(name)]                       \
-               __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(Elf##size##_Word))));     \
-               typeof(desc) _desc                                      \
-                            
__attribute__((aligned(sizeof(Elf##size##_Word)))); \
-       } _ELFNOTE_PASTE(_note_, unique)                                \
-               __attribute_used__                                      \
-               __attribute__((section(".note." name),                  \
-                              aligned(sizeof(Elf##size##_Word)),       \
-                              unused)) = {                             \
-               {                                                       \
-                       sizeof(name),                                   \
-                       sizeof(desc),                                   \
-                       type,                                           \
-               },                                                      \
-               name,                                                   \
-               desc                                                    \
-       }
-#define ELFNOTE(size, name, type, desc)                \
-       _ELFNOTE(size, name, __LINE__, type, desc)
-
-#define ELFNOTE32(name, type, desc) ELFNOTE(32, name, type, desc)
-#define ELFNOTE64(name, type, desc) ELFNOTE(64, name, type, desc)
-#endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */
-
-#endif /* _LINUX_ELFNOTE_H */
-- 
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Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

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