Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:51:09 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.4 patch] disallow modular BINFMT_ELF
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
>
> with no 2.4 kernel BINFMT_ELF=m actually worked, you always get a
> 
>  <--  snip  -->
> 
>  depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-pre4/kernel/fs/binfmt_elf.o
>  depmod:         smp_num_siblings
>  depmod:         put_files_struct
>  depmod:         steal_locks

In 2.6 we gave up and made CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF a def_bool.  So people who
want it get it statically linked.  People who are making tiny a.out systems
set it to 'n'.
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