From: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, roland@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:35:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487FD74C.4080603@BitWagon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717154218.8981035c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:32 -0500
> Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> 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
[snip]
It seems to me that most of the patch conflicts are mechanical
and could be merged mechanically.
However I believe that the documentation change to this comment is important:
-----
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
> -#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE (14 + 2) /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
> +#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE 17 /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
> + /* number of "#define AT_.*" above, minus {AT_NULL, AT_IGNORE, AT_NOTELF} */
> #endif
-----
I scratched my head for a while to figure out that AT_NOTELF also was
a subtraction as far as AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE was concerned.
--
John Reiser, jreiser@BitWagon.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-15 23:58 AT_BASE_PLATFORM (v2) Nathan Lynch
2008-07-15 23:58 ` [PATCH] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 6:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-17 7:09 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-17 17:39 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 22:19 ` [PATCH v3] " Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 22:42 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-17 23:35 ` John Reiser [this message]
2008-07-18 18:28 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-18 20:31 ` John Reiser
2008-07-18 20:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-21 3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-21 3:40 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-21 9:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-21 18:48 ` [PATCH v4] " Nathan Lynch
2008-07-22 2:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-17 16:10 ` [PATCH] " Linus Torvalds
2008-07-17 19:35 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-21 3:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-15 23:58 ` [PATCH] enable AT_BASE_PLATFORM aux vector for powerpc Nathan Lynch
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