From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.linux-foundation.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 657FDDDED6 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:40:41 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:40:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string Message-Id: <20080720204008.8927460c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1216610655.11027.80.camel@pasglop> References: <1216166331-14810-1-git-send-email-ntl@pobox.com> <1216166331-14810-2-git-send-email-ntl@pobox.com> <1216276539.7740.309.camel@pasglop> <20080717000951.5f8cab37.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080717221932.GL9594@localdomain> <20080717154218.8981035c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <487FD74C.4080603@BitWagon.com> <20080718182850.GO9594@localdomain> <1216610655.11027.80.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: John Reiser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Nathan Lynch , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, roland@redhat.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:24:15 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 13:28 -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > John Reiser wrote: > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:32 -0500 > > > > Nathan Lynch 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 > > > > Okay, I can rebase on -mm. > > Andrew, we have one other patch (the powerpc bits) on top of that one. > Do you want to carry both in -mm on top of John's patch ? We would like > that in .27 though, I don't know what your merge plans are for John's > patch. > How about I send John's patch Linuswards right now?