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From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/2] docs: admin-guide: do not mention the 'run a.out user programs' feature
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:13:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220720041325.15693-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220720041325.15693-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>

Running a.out user programs with the latest kernel release is a very rare
and uncommon use case nowadays. The support of a.out user programs is only
remaining for the alpha architecture and is not defined and activated in
the architecture's Kconfig (so even the activation of this support requires
to modify the Kconfig file and not just kernel build configuration).

The discussion on a.out support in 2019 (see Link) shows that the support
of a.out user programs is just remaining for a special corner case from
some (alpha architecture) users.

There is no need to point out and mention this special feature to the
general audience of kernel users. Delete the reference to this historic and
special feature.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgt7M6yA5BJCJo0nF22WgPJnN8CvViL9CAJmd+S+Civ6w@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
index caa3c09a5c3f..b78fe64b39f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
@@ -262,8 +262,6 @@ Compiling the kernel
  - Make sure you have at least gcc 5.1 available.
    For more information, refer to :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>`.
 
-   Please note that you can still run a.out user programs with this kernel.
-
  - Do a ``make`` to create a compressed kernel image. It is also
    possible to do ``make install`` if you have lilo installed to suit the
    kernel makefiles, but you may want to check your particular lilo setup first.
-- 
2.17.1


  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-20  4:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-20  4:13 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Rework the kernel's README.rst Lukas Bulwahn
2022-07-20  4:13 ` Lukas Bulwahn [this message]
2022-07-20  4:13 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] docs: admin-guide: for kernel bugs refer to other kernel documentation Lukas Bulwahn
2022-07-28 15:56 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Rework the kernel's README.rst Jonathan Corbet
2022-08-29 17:10   ` Jonathan Corbet

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