# \[PATCH v8 06/43\] vmlinux.lds.h: drop unused HEADERED\_SECTION\* macros

- From: Jim Cromie via B4 Relay \<devnull+jim.cromie.gmail.com@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2026-09-05 18:14:03 
- List: linux-modules
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-modules/2026/09/17519077
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-kselftest/2026/09/17519092/t.md

```text
From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>

These macros are unused, no point in carrying them any more.

NB: these macros were just moved to bounded_sections.lds.h, from
vmlinux.lds.h, which is the known entity, and therefore more
meaningful in the 1-line summary, so thats what I used as the topic.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h | 15 ---------------
 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
index 8c29293ca7fb..268cdc34389b 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
@@ -18,19 +18,4 @@
 
 #define BOUNDED_SECTION(_sec)	 BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
 
-#define HEADERED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _HDR_) \
-	_HDR_##_label_	= .;						\
-	KEEP(*(.gnu.linkonce.##_sec_))					\
-	BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)
-
-#define HEADERED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _HDR_) \
-	_label_##_HDR_ = .;						\
-	KEEP(*(.gnu.linkonce.##_sec_))					\
-	BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)
-
-#define HEADERED_SECTION_BY(_sec_, _label_)				\
-	HEADERED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop)
-
-#define HEADERED_SECTION(_sec)	 HEADERED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
-
 #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H */

-- 
2.55.0


```
