From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964956AbVIIDqD (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:46:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964958AbVIIDqD (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:46:03 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:62942 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964956AbVIIDqC (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:46:02 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, JBeulich@novell.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] minor ELF definitions addition References: <4320670B0200007800024411@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> <20050908143216.GA9665@infradead.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: 09 Sep 2005 05:45:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20050908143216.GA9665@infradead.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:30:03PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > > (Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get > > line wrapped.) > > > > A trivial addition to the EFL definitions. > > Why? They're obviously not needed in kernelspace.. linux/elf.h has lots of stuff not needed in kernel space, but it seems useful to make it a faithful full description of ELF. BTW we actually considered using TLS on x86-64 for the PDA. The only reason it hasn't been done yet is that the necessary binutils are not wide spread enough yet. -Andi