Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:00:11 +0000
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Suppress A.OUT library support if
	!CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT [try #5]
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 03:15:29PM +0000, David Howells wrote:

> > - it adds #ifdef's in fs/binfmt_elf.c for code that is anyway
> >   scheduled for removal in 2.6.25
> 
> I'm told (by Ralf) that removing this support will break Castle Wolfenstein or
> something like that.
> 
> So unless you want hordes of rampaging MIPS users breaking down your door
> whilst waving pitchforks and torches, maybe this needs to be reconsidered...

The wonders of asynchronous IRC communication ...

Wolfenstein is a true a.out binary and for a long time it was _the_ a.out
binary.  If it was working no user would complain ;-)

  Ralf
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