tree d8cf046a064a1f00443627a6d68b631789882f29
parent 86ead9caf9a9f265f6065c46080d046230e25d78
author Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> 1184834919 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 1184864687 -0700

Add /sys/kernel/notes

This patch adds the /sys/kernel/notes magic file.  Reading this delivers the
contents of the kernel's .notes section.  This lets userland easily glean any
detailed information about the running kernel's build that was stored there at
compile time.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>