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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] disallow modular binfmt_elf32
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:27:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152520078.5834.7.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060710060603.GA9440@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 08:06 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:05:54PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Currently most architectures either always build binfmt_elf32 in the
> > kernel image or make it a boolean option.  Only sparc64 and s390 allow
> > to build it modularly.  This patch turns the option into a boolean
> > aswell because elf requires various symbols that shouldn't be available
> > to modules.  The most urgent one is tasklist_lock whos export this patch
> > series kills, but there are others like force_sgi aswell.
> > [...] 
> > Index: linux-2.6/arch/s390/Kconfig
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/s390/Kconfig	2006-07-06 14:21:17.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6/arch/s390/Kconfig	2006-07-08 19:08:46.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
> >  	default y
> >  
> >  config BINFMT_ELF32
> > -	tristate "Kernel support for 31 bit ELF binaries"
> > +	bool "Kernel support for 31 bit ELF binaries"
> >  	depends on COMPAT
> >  	help
> 
> Martin and I discussed this already a few days ago. This config option
> should go away on s390, since everybody who wants CONFIG_COMPAT also wants
> CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF32. See patch below which applies on top of yours:

Yes, the removal of the BINFMT_ELF32 Kconfig option has been part of the
s390 Kconfig cleanup patch as well, it is supposed to go away.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.



      reply	other threads:[~2006-07-10  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-08 18:05 [PATCH 2/3] disallow modular binfmt_elf32 Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-08 20:48 ` David Miller
2006-07-10  6:06 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-10  8:27   ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]

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