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Subject: Re: Remove execution domain support
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
>
> The removal will make architecutre specific signal handling easier
> and there is no need to keep execuction domains as this feature is
> obviously incomplete and abandoned

Ack. The whole exec domain made some code code pretty inscrutable.

So I'd certainly be willing to pull this during the 4.1 merge window
if nobody complains.

Anybody?

                        Linus
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