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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <k.shutemov@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unexport asm/user.h and linux/user.h
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:06:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4728EE43.2080206@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193845777-2007-3-git-send-email-k.shutemov@gmail.com>

Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Do not export asm/user.h and linux/user.h during make headers_install.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <k.shutemov@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-By: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

The version that is in there is currently broken from a user-space 
perspective (gdb expects u_ar0 to be struct user_regs_struct *, which it 
isn't for a bunch of the architectures defined); it *could* be argued 
the right thing is to fix it up since it *does* export an ABI
-- specifically, the format of a.out core dumps -- but it is probably 
easier to just axe it; userspace has had to deal with this issue on its 
own for a long time already.

As such,

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-31 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-31 15:49 [PATCH] Unexport asm/page.h Kirill A. Shutemov
2007-10-31 15:49 ` [PATCH] Unexport asm/elf.h Kirill A. Shutemov
2007-10-31 15:49 ` [PATCH] Unexport asm/user.h and linux/user.h Kirill A. Shutemov
2007-10-31 21:06   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-10-31 21:10   ` [PATCH] Sanitize the type of struct user.u_ar0 H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-31 15:49 ` [PATCH] Cleanup asm/{elf,page,user}.h: #ifdef __KERNEL__ is no longer needed Kirill A. Shutemov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-24 16:35 [PATCH] Unexport asm/page.h Kirill A. Shutemov
2007-10-24 16:36 ` [PATCH] Unexport asm/elf.h Kirill A. Shutemov
2007-10-24 16:36   ` [PATCH] Unexport asm/user.h and linux/user.h Kirill A. Shutemov

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