Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934220AbXHPQ4S (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:56:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761458AbXHPQ4B (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:56:01 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:55600 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759873AbXHPQ4A (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:56:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:54:55 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jeff Dike , Andrew Morton , uml-devel , Alberto Pires de Oliveira Neto , giedrius@su.lt, LKML , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] UML - Add a .note.SuSE section Message-ID: <20070816165455.GA17875@kroah.com> References: <20070816162428.GA8128@c2.user-mode-linux.org> <1187281856.2663.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1187281856.2663.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 792 Lines: 24 On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:30:56AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:24 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > > [ This is both 2.6.24 and -stable material ] > > > > SuSE seems to require that binaries have a .note.SuSE section. > > Without it, UML segfaults if any parameters are passed on the command > > line. > > > this sounds like something really stupid and bad... why would the kernel > need to have a per-distro note section??? I agree, what did we mess up in the SuSE kernel to require such a hack? :) thanks, greg k-h - 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/