Received: by 2002:ac0:950c:0:0:0:0:0 with SMTP id f12csp1246521imc; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:27:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyHYbOK5UtTLuFmYqGE69Jqmvq/8vg7nIj3SO32fq6FVOOYyfDfVfekg0g3sm4ZjL4Cu7Or X-Received: by 2002:a62:3047:: with SMTP id w68mr33585112pfw.17.1552321676673; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:27:56 -0700 (PDT) ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1552321676; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=pf52P8lfwH8F4Od1m09CEqVjTon8jbXb7AGeRUqSAsnSyCkpS8bmTwvL9pIfiFhcaO oaGAcWD2JJzVXpPPkTSXD5KPyLqkkJRSUyD5qvhRUW2+G4MquF+RiEEQjbKutE5X1GhR cQGyFdhDokhBpwXUD7klROIwx21jvyGyvhOEe29bFNNAq9LlMMgPwrdlq395WTZaYBKo NWGgeywbbRLVdGZ7XgPAK0Y46qoMY5SNdd2jNp+DqZCn8AmS2RQ8LH6C/cnxNRyqkOYE kKtUihCgdAg+6dngRpplYZC5KHYs5XFIPnkFpuKjFwax1x/9da5VcxLS8qRtmQ9eexnB Nj+g== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=list-id:precedence:sender:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :user-agent:message-id:in-reply-to:date:references:subject:cc:to :from; bh=vLLHevL83gVHKPWA1EGxI5yh3WfYSMwc0tb2fbrZiSQ=; b=F1hVJmwdZlFqNORWtdIjTC8qFlYUzTA/rRVUYM2M23wDSFrdYlRVoWzMjwpTFmfsJ7 iZIPiLYj/+6nxEr2OL2AaG7VGia29wP2b2na52vbp56rdCW3Y9Lp8XwL4e15UXhPvC/t AcL0knQbpcwEQ3PAnMwjAHCWe7oinIgvAIKFs8lbeLTqmfIepSMRhhnQTfJe5oHnfXRN VuEVqRtbIycG4IMM76B830B+dH1pKq5RLNbyyi7UEX5UNK5rCbcGcqO8E+xbHtYU6+X6 bhWdp+W35YHCf/3Dc0IfSAswF4ES1HiIXWzgspP2nX79CDJbwwcPlN0nPsoV+KAhSUkJ fvMQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org. [209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d8si5712496plr.409.2019.03.11.09.27.40; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727676AbfCKQ0F convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT + 99 others); Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:26:05 -0400 Received: from unicorn.mansr.com ([81.2.72.234]:34288 "EHLO unicorn.mansr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726000AbfCKQ0E (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:26:04 -0400 Received: by unicorn.mansr.com (Postfix, from userid 51770) id 2BD4B14CEA; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:26:03 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matt Turner , Borislav Petkov , Alan Cox , Matthew Wilcox , Jann Horn , Al Viro , Thomas Gleixner , kernel list , linux-fsdevel , "the arch\/x86 maintainers" , Linux API , Andrew Morton , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov , linux-alpha , linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support References: <20190305091904.GB8256@zn.tnic> <20190305122218.GD13380@bombadil.infradead.org> <20190305134347.4be2449c@alans-desktop> <20190305145717.GD8256@zn.tnic> <20190305173134.GE8256@zn.tnic> <20190305181138.GG8256@zn.tnic> <20190305181808.GH8256@zn.tnic> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:26:03 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 10 Mar 2019 15:40:20 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:37 PM Matt Turner wrote: >> >> I'm not aware of a reason to keep a.out support on alpha. > > Hmm. I was looking at removing a.out support entirely, but it's > actually fairly incestuous on alpha. > > For example, arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c very much has some a.out > support in it. Maybe it can just be removed entirely. > > There's also an a.out.h include in arch/alpha/kernel/binfmt_loader.c. > > Finally, note that CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT also no longer makes sense > without a.out support. Anyone running an Alpha machine likely also has some old OSF/1 binaries they may wish to use. It would be a shame to remove this feature, IMO. -- M?ns Rullg?rd