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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@novell.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:02:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070801200233.GA30240@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708012125290.26668@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:26:10PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Aug 1 2007 20:35, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> On Aug 1 2007 14:33, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> >Comments?
> >> 
> >> A kconfig entry "(OBSOLETE)"/"(DEPRECATED)" would be nice.
> >> (And if you want to test people, 'depends on EMBEDDED' for CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT)
> >
> >The point is to have less clutter in binfmt_elf.c (which really
> >could need a rewrite btw or at least a lot of cleanup) not add more in form 
> >of ifdefs.
> 
> 
> ---
>  fs/Kconfig.binfmt |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.23/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.23.orig/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
> +++ linux-2.6.23/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config BINFMT_SHARED_FLAT
>  	  Support FLAT shared libraries
>  
>  config BINFMT_AOUT
> -	tristate "Kernel support for a.out and ECOFF binaries"
> +	tristate "Kernel support for a.out and ECOFF binaries (OBSOLETE)"

NAK, binfmt a.out support is something entirely different from what
we're talking about here.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-01 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-01 12:33 [RFC] [PATCH] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters Andi Kleen
2007-08-01 15:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-01 18:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-01 18:35   ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-01 19:26     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-01 20:02       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-08-01 20:13       ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-01 20:42       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-08-01 21:18   ` Rene Herman

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