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From: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, roland@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:35:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487FD74C.4080603@BitWagon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717154218.8981035c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:32 -0500
> Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> [snip]
>> A new aux vector entry, AT_BASE_PLATFORM, will denote the actual hardware.
[snip]

> OK.
> 
> But it conflicts directly with the already-queued
> execve-filename-document-and-export-via-auxiliary-vector.patch

[snip]

It seems to me that most of the patch conflicts are mechanical
and could be merged mechanically.

However I believe that the documentation change to this comment is important:
-----
>  #ifdef __KERNEL__
> -#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE (14 + 2) /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
> +#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE 17 /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
> +  /* number of "#define AT_.*" above, minus {AT_NULL, AT_IGNORE, AT_NOTELF} */
>  #endif
-----
I scratched my head for a while to figure out that AT_NOTELF also was
a subtraction as far as AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE was concerned.


-- 
John Reiser, jreiser@BitWagon.com

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From: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	roland@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:35:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487FD74C.4080603@BitWagon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717154218.8981035c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:32 -0500
> Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> [snip]
>> A new aux vector entry, AT_BASE_PLATFORM, will denote the actual hardware.
[snip]

> OK.
> 
> But it conflicts directly with the already-queued
> execve-filename-document-and-export-via-auxiliary-vector.patch

[snip]

It seems to me that most of the patch conflicts are mechanical
and could be merged mechanically.

However I believe that the documentation change to this comment is important:
-----
>  #ifdef __KERNEL__
> -#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE (14 + 2) /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
> +#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE 17 /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
> +  /* number of "#define AT_.*" above, minus {AT_NULL, AT_IGNORE, AT_NOTELF} */
>  #endif
-----
I scratched my head for a while to figure out that AT_NOTELF also was
a subtraction as far as AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE was concerned.


-- 
John Reiser, jreiser@BitWagon.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-17 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-15 23:58 AT_BASE_PLATFORM (v2) Nathan Lynch
2008-07-15 23:58 ` [PATCH] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17  6:35   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-17  6:35     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-17  7:09     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-17  7:09       ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-17 17:39       ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 17:39         ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 22:19       ` [PATCH v3] " Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 22:19         ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 22:42         ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-17 22:42           ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-17 23:35           ` John Reiser [this message]
2008-07-17 23:35             ` John Reiser
2008-07-18 18:28             ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-18 18:28               ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-18 20:31               ` John Reiser
2008-07-18 20:31                 ` John Reiser
2008-07-18 20:52                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-18 20:52                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-21  3:24               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-21  3:24                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-21  3:40                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-21  3:40                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-21  9:33                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-21  9:33                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-21 18:48           ` [PATCH v4] " Nathan Lynch
2008-07-21 18:48             ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-22  2:03             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-22  2:03               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-17 16:10     ` [PATCH] " Linus Torvalds
2008-07-17 16:10       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-17 19:35       ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 19:35         ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-21  3:19       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-21  3:19         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-15 23:58 ` [PATCH] enable AT_BASE_PLATFORM aux vector for powerpc Nathan Lynch

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