The reference to '__vermagic' is a relict from v2.5 times. And even
there it had a very short life time, from v2.5.59 (commit 1d411b80ee18
("Module Sanity Check") in the historic tree) to v2.5.69 (commit
67ac5b866bda ("[PATCH] complete modinfo section")).Neither current kernels nor modules contain a '__vermagic' section any more, so get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <[email protected]> Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Cc: Jessica Yu <[email protected]> --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index 3d7a6a9c2370..530ce1e7a1ec 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -332,7 +332,6 @@ __start_rodata = .; \ *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*) \ RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA /* Read only after init */ \ - KEEP(*(__vermagic)) /* Kernel version magic */ \ . = ALIGN(8); \ __start___tracepoints_ptrs = .; \ KEEP(*(__tracepoints_ptrs)) /* Tracepoints: pointer array */ \ -- 2.19.2
