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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alpha: binfmt_aout fix
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:19:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090424201952.GQ8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090424154602.GA368@jurassic.park.msu.ru>

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:46:02PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:05:49PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:47:38PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> > > Fixed by changing the registration order of the default
> > > binfmt handlers using list_add_tail() and introducing insert_binfmt()
> > > function which places new handler on the top of the binfmt list.
> > > This might be generally useful for installing arch-specific frontends
> > > for default handlers or just for overriding them.
> > 
> > Hmm...  How about always doing list_add_tail() instead?
> 
> That would fix the module case, but gets broken when binfmt_aout
> in built-in, because the generic handlers are registered pretty
> early (core_initcall) and alpha binfmt_loader is an arch_initcall.

OK, probably the easiest way to deal with that.

ACK

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-24 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-24 14:47 [PATCH] alpha: binfmt_aout fix Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-24 15:05 ` Al Viro
2009-04-24 15:46   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-24 20:19     ` Al Viro [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-17 10:49 Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-02-17 11:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-02-17 11:40   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-02-18 23:52     ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-19  9:40       ` Ivan Kokshaysky

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