arm64: remove unneeded copy to init_utsname()->machine
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 commit
9703d9d7f77c ("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.
- Commit
94ed1f2cb5d4 ("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 commit
cfa88c79462d ("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>