Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755694AbbDKVIr (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2015 17:08:47 -0400 Received: from a.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.143]:65275 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753347AbbDKVIm (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2015 17:08:42 -0400 Message-ID: <55298D51.4010207@nod.at> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 23:08:33 +0200 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Viro , Linus Torvalds CC: "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , Vineet Gupta , Russell King - ARM Linux , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , hskinnemoen@gmail.com, Hans-Christian Egtvedt , Miao Steven , Mark Salter , "JACQUIOT-XID, Aurelien" , Mikael Starvik , Jesper Nilsson , David Howells , Richard Kuo , Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu , Geert Uytterhoeven , James Hogan , Michal Simek , Ralf Baechle , yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com, Ley Foon Tan , Jonas Bonn , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , liqin.linux@gmail.com, Lennox Wu , David Miller , cmetcalf@ezchip.com, Jeff Dike , Andrew Morton , Oleg Nesterov , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Remove execution domain support References: <1428785283-20501-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> <20150411210413.GI889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20150411210413.GI889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1714 Lines: 41 Am 11.04.2015 um 23:04 schrieb Al Viro: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 01:52:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Richard Weinberger 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? > > IIRC, only two places really used that thing - iBCS2 shite and RISCOS > compat one. The former isnot in the tree at all, and I've no idea > how many users does the latter one have. Probably not many, judging by this: > config ARTHUR > tristate "RISC OS personality" > depends on !AEABI > help > Say Y here to include the kernel code necessary if you want to run > Acorn RISC OS/Arthur binaries under Linux. This code is still very > experimental; if this sounds frightening, say N and sleep in peace. > You can also say M here to compile this support as a module (which > will be called arthur). > > rmk might have a better idea of whether anyone gives a damn... Many moons ago I've sent a patch to remove RISOS support. He liked it: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-July/274298.html Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/