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From: Isaac Claymore <clay@exavio.com.cn>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.4 patch] disallow modular BINFMT_ELF
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:45:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040108094549.GA9225@exavio.com.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040107235109.52abe4a2.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:51:09PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
> >
> > with no 2.4 kernel BINFMT_ELF=m actually worked, you always get a
> > 
> >  <--  snip  -->
> > 
> >  depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-pre4/kernel/fs/binfmt_elf.o
> >  depmod:         smp_num_siblings
> >  depmod:         put_files_struct
> >  depmod:         steal_locks
> 
> In 2.6 we gave up and made CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF a def_bool.  So people who
> want it get it statically linked.  People who are making tiny a.out systems
> set it to 'n'.

Could you please give some hint about what's hindering ELF support from
being a module?

Just curious, thanks.


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      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-08  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-07 19:47 [2.4 patch] disallow modular BINFMT_ELF Adrian Bunk
2004-01-08  7:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-08  9:45   ` Isaac Claymore [this message]

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