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Such a generic struct tag shouldn't have been exposed in a public header. Since it's undocumented, we can assume it's a historical accident. And since no software (at least on Debian) relies on this tag, we can safely remove it. Here are the results of a Debian Code Search[1]: $ # packages that contain 'include [<"]linux/elf\.h[">]' $ curl -s https://codesearch.debian.net/results/e5e7c74dfcdae609/packages.txt > include $ # packages that contain '\bstruct dynamic\b' $ curl -s https://codesearch.debian.net/results/b23577e099048c6a/packages.txt > struct $ cat struct include | sort | uniq -d chromium hurd linux qemu qt6-webengine qtwebengine-opensource-src $ # chromium: Seems to hold a copy of the UAPI header. No uses of the tag. $ # hurd: Same thing as chromium. $ # linux: :) $ # qemu: Same thing as chromium. $ # qt6-webengine: Same thing as all. $ # qtwebengine-opensource-src: Yet another copy. Link: https://codesearch.debian.net/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/87wmxdokum.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org/T/ Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.