Re: [PATCH v3] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

John Reiser
2008-07-17T23:44:19Z

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.

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John Reiser, jreiser@BitWagon.com