Re: [PATCH] alpha: binfmt_aout fix

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:40:56 +0300
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:08:42AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I think the proper fix for this is to make sure newly registered
> > binfmts are added to the tail of the list, not the front.
> 
> Yes, I was thinking about that. But then I need to make sure
> that alpha binfmt_loader is registered first, which is not
> possible at the moment as binfmts get registered at core_initcall
> level.
> If it's acceptable to change binfmts initcall level to, say,
> fs_initcall, then changing list_add() to list_add_tail() would
> certainly work fine here.
> 

It would make sense to register the core, default handlers first and
to permit arch-specific handlers to then override (or to front-end) the
core handlers.

But that sounds a bit risky for 2.6.29.  Is this fix needed in 2.6.29? 
If so, perhaps we should merge version 1 as a temporary thing.  But if
so, please let's not do the temporary-thing-which-hangs-around-forever thing?