[merged] kexec-fix-make-headers_check.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: kexec: Fix make headers_check
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     kexec-fix-make-headers_check.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Geoff Levand <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: kexec: Fix make headers_check

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.geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
: 
: 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 <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Maximilian Attems <max@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 include/uapi/linux/kexec.h |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff -puN include/uapi/linux/kexec.h~kexec-fix-make-headers_check include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h~kexec-fix-make-headers_check
+++ a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
@@ -55,12 +55,6 @@ 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 */
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch

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