Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934140AbXHAPDU (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:03:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763281AbXHAPDJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:03:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49498 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759188AbXHAPDI (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:03:08 -0400 Message-ID: <46B0A081.5080405@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:02:25 -0400 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters References: <200708011433.09433.ak@novell.com> In-Reply-To: <200708011433.09433.ak@novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 24 Andi Kleen wrote: > > I propose to deprecate this support and remove for 2.6.25. > > Drawback is that someone still runs their system with a.out ld.so > they would need to update the ld.so when updating to a new kernel. > > This patch just adds an entry to the deprecation file and a printk > warning users. > > Comments? > Makes total sense. This is a highly oddball configuration, and *extremely* unlikely to have a significant user base of modern kernels. It's been 12 years since we switched to ELF. -hpa - 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/