Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752015AbbKYRnp (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:43:45 -0500 Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:32348 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750832AbbKYRnj (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:43:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:43:39 +0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Ralf Baechle CC: Andrew Morton , Matthew Fortune , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] MIPS: ELF: Interpret the NAN2008 file header flag In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Originating-IP: [10.100.200.187] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1631 Lines: 30 On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > This change relies on to > work correctly for dynamic binaries, otherwise an opposite-mode > interpreter will be incorrectly accepted, and worse yet enforce any > additional shared binaries to have their NaN mode opposite to that of the > main binary. This will normally only happen for broken installations or > incorrectly built binaries where PT_INTERP points to the wrong dynamic > linker though. Static binaries are unaffected. Ralf, I see that patch has now been applied, commit b582ef5c, and no concerns have been raised as to the changes considered here so you can give this series a go-ahead at your earliest convenience. Unless someone chimes in at the last minute, that is. I'll be rather happy if you can push it through in time for 4.4 so that a corresponding change required for glibc to define the earliest Linux version to enable 2008-NaN support from can make it to the 2.23 release, scheduled for late Jan to early Feb 2016 according to the usual practice (see for the release timeline). A slushy freeze period is likely to start from Jan 1st for the glibc code base, but a change to set the minimum Linux version only for a feature already included is surely going to be acceptable even then. Maciej -- 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/