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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 and x86_64: randomize brk()
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:05:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070830180538.b52b802d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708301708590.4135@jikos.suse.cz>

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:10:03 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 
> > Blackfin too please :) i think v850 also falls into this category, but 
> > i'm not terribly familiar with it ...
> 
> Andrew, do you still strongly oppose to having ARCH_HAS_RANDOMIZE_BRK 
> macro instead please?
> 

Not strongly, but the general opinion seems to be that ARCH_HAS_FOO is
sucky.  It should at least be done in Kconfig rather than in .h, but even
better is just to implement the thing for all architectures.

Please ask checkpatch.pl about you patch, too.  It has commonly-occurring
coding mishaps.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-31  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-30 13:47 [PATCH] i386 and x86_64: randomize brk() Jiri Kosina
2007-08-30 14:01 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-08-30 14:21   ` Jiri Kosina
2007-08-30 14:26     ` Mike Frysinger
2007-08-30 15:10       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-08-30 15:33         ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-08-31  1:05         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-08-31 11:56           ` Jiri Kosina
2007-09-01 20:19           ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-09-02 20:28             ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-03  9:34               ` Jiri Kosina
2007-09-03 10:03                 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-09-03 17:38                   ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-09-03 20:44                     ` Jiri Kosina
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-22 16:05 Jiri Kosina
2007-08-22 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-22 23:04   ` Jiri Kosina

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