Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

Ingo Molnar
2008-01-25T12:18:00Z

* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> Remove ibcs2 support in ELF loader too
>
> ibcs2 support has never been supported on 2.6 kernels as far as I
> know, and if it has it must have been an external patch. Anyways, if
> anybody applies an external patch they could as well readd the ibcs
> checking code to the ELF loader in the same patch. But there is no
> reason to keep this code running in all Linux kernels. This will save
> at least two strcmps each ELF execution.
>
> No deprecation period because it could not have been used anyways.

thanks Andi, i have applied your cleanup patch to x86.git a couple of
days ago and it (no surprise) caused no testing problems so far. (I dont
think we need to backport this cleanup to v2.6.24.1, as iBCS2 support
was never present in any upstream Linux kernel anyway)

Ingo