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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Use linux/elfcore-compat.h
In-Reply-To: Arnd Bergmann's message of  Wednesday, 8 August 2007 00:08:20 +0200 <200708080008.20738.arnd@arndb.de>
Message-Id: <20070807234343.C762D4D04C4@magilla.localdomain>
Date: Tue,  7 Aug 2007 16:43:43 -0700 (PDT)
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> There is hardly anything interesting remaining in 
> arch/powerpc/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c after your patch.
> 
> Do you think it's reasonable to go one step further and
> turn the file into a completely generic fs/binfmt_elf32.c
> that can be used by all 32/64 compat architectures?

There is certainly more cleanup that can be done.  
This was just an easy incremental step.

It's not going to get quite to "completely generic".  On other machines the
32/64 flavors are not quite as similar as on powerpc, so there is some more
code required there.  There will have to be a lot of per-arch macros and
functions, even if they are unified to compat_* names.


Thanks,
Roland
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