From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] disallow modular binfmt_elf32
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 20:05:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060708180554.GB7034@lst.de> (raw)
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.
Note that sparc doesn't allow a modular 32bit a.out handler either, and
that would be the more useful case as only few people want 32bit sunos
compatibility and 99.9% of all sparc64 users need 32bit linux native elf
support.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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
This allows you to run 32-bit Linux/ELF binaries on your zSeries
Index: linux-2.6/arch/sparc64/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/sparc64/Kconfig 2006-07-01 12:49:02.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/arch/sparc64/Kconfig 2006-07-08 19:08:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@
default y
config BINFMT_ELF32
- tristate "Kernel support for 32-bit ELF binaries"
+ bool "Kernel support for 32-bit ELF binaries"
depends on SPARC32_COMPAT
help
This allows you to run 32-bit Linux/ELF binaries on your Ultra.
next reply other threads:[~2006-07-08 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-08 18:05 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-07-08 20:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] disallow modular binfmt_elf32 David Miller
2006-07-10 6:06 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-10 8:27 ` Martin Schwidefsky
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