Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support

Linus Torvalds
2019-03-05T18:04:12Z

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 9:31 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> So how do you wanna handle this?
>
> I guess the easiest would be if you apply your patch directly now and
> add the a.out phase-out strategy we're going for in its commit message
> so that people are aware of what we're doing.

Yup, I'll just do that. I'll fix up my patch to be more complete (ie
the a.out-core.h removal Jann pointed out).

I'll talk about removing a.out support entirely in the commit message.
I'd be ok for that to be a total removal, but maybe there are some
architectures that still have that as a "main" format?

Or I could just apply your patch after removing the core-dumping. Comments?

Linus