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As you see in init/version.c, init_uts_ns.name.machine is initially set to UTS_MACHINE. There is no point to copy the same string. I dug the git history to figure out why this line is here. My best guess is like this: - This line has been around here since the initial support of arm64 by commit9703d9d7f7("arm64: Kernel booting and initialisation"). If ARCH (=arm64) and UTS_MACHINE (=aarch64) do not match, arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile is supposed to override UTS_MACHINE, but the initial version of arch/arm64/Makefile missed to do that. Instead, the boot code copied "aarch64" to init_utsname()->machine. - Commit94ed1f2cb5("arm64: setup: report ELF_PLATFORM as the machine for utsname") replaced "aarch64" with ELF_PLATFORM to make "uname" to reflect the endianness. - ELF_PLATFORM does not help to provide the UTS machine name to rpm target, so commitcfa88c7946("arm64: Set UTS_MACHINE in the Makefile") fixed it. The commit simply replaced ELF_PLATFORM with UTS_MACHINE, but missed the fact the string copy itself is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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