From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-am33-list@redhat.com, dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MN10300: Permit AOUT library support to be suppressed in ELF binfmt
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:26:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071026122637.f9b86bdd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071026154215.30983.32978.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:42:15 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Permit AOUT library support to be suppressed in the ELF binfmt if the arch does
> not support it. AOUT support is suppressed by adding:
>
> config NO_AOUT_SUPPORT
> def_bool y
>
> to the arch Kconfig file.
>
> The MN10300 architecture does not support the AOUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt
> should not be permitted to go looking for AOUT libraries to load.
>
hm, seems a bit ungainly. Why can't we just make all the aout things in
binfmt_elf.c depend upon CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-26 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-26 15:42 [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel David Howells
2007-10-26 15:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] MN10300: Permit AOUT library support to be suppressed in ELF binfmt David Howells
2007-10-26 19:26 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-10-26 22:29 ` David Howells
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