From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932524AbVKONk0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:40:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932526AbVKONk0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:40:26 -0500 Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:46866 "EHLO mail.muc.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932524AbVKONkZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:40:25 -0500 Date: 15 Nov 2005 14:40:22 +0100 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:40:22 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: eranian@hpl.hp.com, Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, stephane.eranian@hp.com, tony.luck@intel.com Subject: Re: + perfmon2-reserve-system-calls.patch added to -mm tree Message-ID: <20051115134022.GB87706@muc.de> References: <200511142329.jAENTfmS004600@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <200511150050.27556.arnd@arndb.de> <20051114171226.680cddc8.akpm@osdl.org> <20051115080055.GA24236@frankl.hpl.hp.com> <1132042089.2822.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1132042089.2822.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > ... which is a binary only, proprietary application. The IA32 emulation part of it is actually shipped in source. Somehow they manage to link a binary only object to it though. > > Either way, either the emulation is in the kernel or it's not. If it's > there (like it is now) it deserves maintenance. If it's not, it should > be removed from the tree, since the only thing it's otherwise good for > is potential security holes. I suppose it's still useful for all current IA64 users (Montecito is not shipping yet and older CPUs support x86 in hardware) who don't like binary only software. -Andi >