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[2001:16b8:26a1:1f00:8020:c2fc:6e11:5b3e]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t6-20020aa7d706000000b0043a85d7d15esm11512978edq.12.2022.07.19.21.14.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:14:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Lukas Bulwahn To: Jonathan Corbet , Thorsten Leemhuis , Linus Torvalds , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lukas Bulwahn Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/2] docs: admin-guide: do not mention the 'run a.out user programs' feature Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:13:24 +0200 Message-Id: <20220720041325.15693-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 In-Reply-To: <20220720041325.15693-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> References: <20220720041325.15693-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Running a.out user programs with the latest kernel release is a very rare and uncommon use case nowadays. The support of a.out user programs is only remaining for the alpha architecture and is not defined and activated in the architecture's Kconfig (so even the activation of this support requires to modify the Kconfig file and not just kernel build configuration). The discussion on a.out support in 2019 (see Link) shows that the support of a.out user programs is just remaining for a special corner case from some (alpha architecture) users. There is no need to point out and mention this special feature to the general audience of kernel users. Delete the reference to this historic and special feature. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgt7M6yA5BJCJo0nF22WgPJnN8CvViL9CAJmd+S+Civ6w@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn --- Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst index caa3c09a5c3f..b78fe64b39f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst @@ -262,8 +262,6 @@ Compiling the kernel - Make sure you have at least gcc 5.1 available. For more information, refer to :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst `. - Please note that you can still run a.out user programs with this kernel. - - Do a ``make`` to create a compressed kernel image. It is also possible to do ``make install`` if you have lilo installed to suit the kernel makefiles, but you may want to check your particular lilo setup first. -- 2.17.1