From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org,
dhowells@redhat.com, andi@firstfloor.org,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <k.shutemov@gmail.com>,
ysato@users.sourceforge.jp, takata@linux-m32r.org,
linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca,
grundler@parisc-linux.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
lethal@linux-sh.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: architectures with ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT but no binfmt_aout
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:28:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080617112835.GB4392@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080617084235.GA20169@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:42:35AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:26:54PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Why _are_ there architectures which define ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT and have
> > <asm/a.out.h> but don't support binfmt_aout, anyway? How does that make
> > sense?
>
> My guess would be that binfmt_aout isn't actually used there.
It was probably copied from MIPS in the early days of the parisc port
and nobody ever b othered to look at it before. There was never an
a.out format for parisc.
--
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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2008-06-17 8:42 ` architectures with ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT but no binfmt_aout Adrian Bunk
2008-06-17 9:46 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-17 10:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-17 10:18 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-17 10:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-17 11:28 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-17 12:23 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-06-17 12:29 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-17 12:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-06-17 12:54 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-22 9:49 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-22 11:40 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-22 23:53 ` David McCullough
2008-06-24 11:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-27 16:27 ` Jeff Dike
2008-06-27 21:12 ` [2.6 patch] remove unused asm/a.out.h files Adrian Bunk
2008-06-17 11:28 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-06-24 4:15 ` architectures with ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT but no binfmt_aout Paul Mundt
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