Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263487AbTKQNJY (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:09:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263490AbTKQNJY (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:09:24 -0500 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:23185 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263487AbTKQNJW (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:09:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:08:06 -0500 From: Jakub Jelinek To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Jeff Garzik , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] disallow modular BINFMT_ELF Message-ID: <20031117130806.GC6288@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek References: <20031115232600.GF7919@fs.tum.de> <3FB6BB35.8090001@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 977 Lines: 26 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:09:11PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Jeff Garzik writes: > > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > modular BINFMT_ELF gives unresolved symbols in 2.4 . > > > modular BINFMT_ELF gives the following unresolved symbols in 2.6: > > > > > > Interesting. this causes me to wonder if we should bother making BINFMT_ELF an > > > > option at all... > > We have platforms uClinux for which ELF is not the preferred format so we > should at least be able to compile it out. Similarly on bi-arch supporting platforms, CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF controls 64-bit ELF support which one might want to disable and only use CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF32 (or other config option which controls 32-bit ELF support). Jakub - 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/