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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Use linux/elfcore-compat.h
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:08:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708080008.20738.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070803232321.74DB84D04BC@magilla.localdomain>

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:
> 
> This makes powerpc64's compat code use the new linux/elfcore-compat.h,
> reducing some hand-copied duplication.

There is hardly anything interesting remaining in 
arch/powerpc/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c after your patch.

Do you think it's reasonable to go one step further and
turn the file into a completely generic fs/binfmt_elf32.c
that can be used by all 32/64 compat architectures?

I tried that in the past, but failed because I don't
really understand enough of the ELF loader to know
which architectures do it right and which don't -- I only
saw them all being very different in this file ;-)

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-07 22:13 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 [this message]
2007-08-07 23:43     ` Roland McGrath
2007-08-07 20:28 ` [PATCH] Add linux/elfcore-compat.h Andrew Morton
2007-08-07 21:36   ` Roland McGrath

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