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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Alberto Pires de Oliveira Neto <apon1@terra.com.br>,
	giedrius@su.lt, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] UML - Add a .note.SuSE section
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:54:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070816165455.GA17875@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187281856.2663.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:30:56AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:24 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > [ This is both 2.6.24 and -stable material ]
> > 
> > SuSE seems to require that binaries have a .note.SuSE section.
> > Without it, UML segfaults if any parameters are passed on the command
> > line.
> 
> 
> this sounds like something really stupid and bad... why would the kernel
> need to have a per-distro note section???

I agree, what did we mess up in the SuSE kernel to require such a hack?
:)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-16 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-16 16:24 [PATCH] UML - Add a .note.SuSE section Jeff Dike
2007-08-16 16:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-16 16:54   ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-08-16 19:26   ` Jeff Dike
2007-08-16 20:04     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-08-16 21:05       ` Jeff Dike
2007-08-21 17:05         ` [uml-devel] " Blaisorblade
2007-08-22 16:37           ` Jeff Dike
2007-08-23 14:50             ` Blaisorblade
2007-08-16 16:39 ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2007-08-16 19:30 ` Andi Kleen

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