From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08571DDE98 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:20:05 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: References: <1216166331-14810-1-git-send-email-ntl@pobox.com> <1216166331-14810-2-git-send-email-ntl@pobox.com> <1216276539.7740.309.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:19:48 +1000 Message-Id: <1216610388.11027.77.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Andrew Morton , Nathan Lynch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roland@redhat.com Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:10 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Should I seek somebody's ack before merging a patch like the one below ? > > > > I'm a bit reluctant to merge via the powerpc.git tree some changes to > > generic files without at least an ack from somebody else :-) > > Gaah. Generally we don't, but you're right to ask. The ELF loading keeps > on accumulating these things, and I'm not sure we have the right process > for things like this. They're all individually small and insignificant, > and they are all individually never going away and making the ELF loader > messier and messier. Yeah, annoying. Oh well, this one at least is now getting Andrew's scrutinity... Cheers, Ben.