From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILida-0007xV-NR for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:55:58 -0700 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1ILidZ-00032b-Aj for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:55:58 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:54:55 -0700 From: Greg KH Message-ID: <20070816165455.GA17875@kroah.com> References: <20070816162428.GA8128@c2.user-mode-linux.org> <1187281856.2663.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1187281856.2663.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [stable] [PATCH] UML - Add a .note.SuSE section List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andrew Morton , uml-devel , Jeff Dike , giedrius@su.lt, LKML , stable@kernel.org, Alberto Pires de Oliveira Neto On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:30:56AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:24 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > > [ This is both 2.6.24 and -stable material ] > > > > SuSE seems to require that binaries have a .note.SuSE section. > > Without it, UML segfaults if any parameters are passed on the command > > line. > > > this sounds like something really stupid and bad... why would the kernel > need to have a per-distro note section??? I agree, what did we mess up in the SuSE kernel to require such a hack? :) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934220AbXHPQ4S (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:56:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761458AbXHPQ4B (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:56:01 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:55600 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759873AbXHPQ4A (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:56:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:54:55 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jeff Dike , Andrew Morton , uml-devel , Alberto Pires de Oliveira Neto , giedrius@su.lt, LKML , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] UML - Add a .note.SuSE section Message-ID: <20070816165455.GA17875@kroah.com> References: <20070816162428.GA8128@c2.user-mode-linux.org> <1187281856.2663.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1187281856.2663.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:30:56AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:24 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > > [ This is both 2.6.24 and -stable material ] > > > > SuSE seems to require that binaries have a .note.SuSE section. > > Without it, UML segfaults if any parameters are passed on the command > > line. > > > this sounds like something really stupid and bad... why would the kernel > need to have a per-distro note section??? I agree, what did we mess up in the SuSE kernel to require such a hack? :) thanks, greg k-h