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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add linux/elfcore-compat.h
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:28:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070807132850.a7e81f97.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070803232121.A252E4D04BC@magilla.localdomain>

On Fri,  3 Aug 2007 16:21:21 -0700 (PDT)
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:

> This adds the linux/elfcore-compat.h header file, which is the
> CONFIG_COMPAT analog of the linux/elfcore.h header.  Each arch
> that needs to fake out fs/binfmt_elf.c for its compat code can
> use this header to replace the hand-copied definitions of the
> compat variants of struct elf_prstatus et al.  Only the pr_reg
> field varies by arch, so asm/{compat,elf}.h must define
> compat_elf_gregset_t before linux/elfcore-compat.h can be used.
> 

Should ia64 be using this too?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-07 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-03 23:21 [PATCH] Add linux/elfcore-compat.h Roland McGrath
2007-08-03 23:22 ` [PATCH] x86_64: Use linux/elfcore-compat.h Roland McGrath
2007-08-03 23:23 ` [PATCH] powerpc: " Roland McGrath
2007-08-07 22:08   ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-08-07 23:43     ` Roland McGrath
2007-08-07 20:28 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-08-07 21:36   ` [PATCH] Add linux/elfcore-compat.h Roland McGrath

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