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init/version.c: remove Version_<LINUX_VERSION_CODE> symbol

This code hunk creates a Version_<LINUX_VERSION_CODE> symbol if
CONFIG_KALLSYMS is disabled. For example, building the kernel v5.10 for
allnoconfig creates the following symbol:

$ nm vmlinux | grep Version_
c116b028 B Version_330240

There is no in-tree user of this symbol.

Commit 197dcffc8ba0 ("init/version.c: define version_string only if
CONFIG_KALLSYMS is not defined") mentions that Version_* is only used
with ksymoops.

However, a commit in the pre-git era [1] had added the statement,
"ksymoops is useless on 2.6. Please use the Oops in its original format".

That statement existed until commit 4eb9241127a0 ("Documentation:
admin-guide: update bug-hunting.rst") finally removed the stale
ksymoops information.

This symbol is no longer needed.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=ad68b2f085f5c79e4759ca2d13947b3c885ee831

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210120033452.2895170-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Guilak <guilak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Masahiro Yamada and committed by
Linus Torvalds
073a9ecb 5b8f82e1

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init/version.c
··· 16 16 #include <linux/version.h> 17 17 #include <linux/proc_ns.h> 18 18 19 - #ifndef CONFIG_KALLSYMS 20 - #define version(a) Version_ ## a 21 - #define version_string(a) version(a) 22 - 23 - extern int version_string(LINUX_VERSION_CODE); 24 - int version_string(LINUX_VERSION_CODE); 25 - #endif 26 - 27 19 struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = { 28 20 .ns.count = REFCOUNT_INIT(2), 29 21 .name = {