From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756169AbaCLR0b (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:26:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:8538 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755738AbaCLR01 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:26:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:24:58 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: Borislav Petkov , "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, hpa@zytor.com, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, greg@kroah.com, jkosina@suse.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] kexec: Support for loading ELF x86_64 images Message-ID: <20140312172458.GK14981@redhat.com> References: <1390849071-21989-1-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> <1390849071-21989-11-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> <20140228145832.GF4326@pd.tnic> <20140228171142.GI28744@redhat.com> <20140307171233.GD5255@pd.tnic> <20140307183959.GE5255@pd.tnic> <20140310144237.GA4352@redhat.com> <20140312161919.GE23890@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140312161919.GE23890@pd.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 05:19:19PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:42:37AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > When I posted V1 of patches, Eric Biederman had said that without ELF > > loader support this patchset should not go in. He said that ELF is > > very generic and if we are implementing a new system call we should > > support ELF loader. > > But why, if nobody uses it? Eric, can you please help answer this one. Thanks Vivek