Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756215AbYFQKZv (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:25:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754425AbYFQKZk (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:25:40 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:36010 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754375AbYFQKZj (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:25:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:24:15 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: David Woodhouse Cc: Peter Korsgaard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org, dhowells@redhat.com, andi@firstfloor.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" , ysato@users.sourceforge.jp, takata@linux-m32r.org, linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca, matthew@wil.cx, grundler@parisc-linux.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: architectures with ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT but no binfmt_aout Message-ID: <20080617102415.GA30239@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <1213565555.26255.522.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1213604973-7073-1-git-send-email-jacmet@sunsite.dk> <1213617663.26255.708.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080616121727.GB10854@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <1213619214.26255.721.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080617084235.GA20169@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <1213696004.26255.960.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080617101112.GE20169@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <1213697925.26255.969.camel@pmac.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1213697925.26255.969.camel@pmac.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2108 Lines: 59 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:18:45AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 13:11 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:46:44AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:42 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > > > > Why _are_ there architectures which define ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT and have > > > > > but don't support binfmt_aout, anyway? How does that make > > > > > sense? > > > > > > > > My guess would be that binfmt_aout isn't actually used there. > > > > > > > > The affected architectures are: > > > > - h8300 > > > > - m32r > > > > - parisc > > > > - sh > > > > - v850 > > > > > > > > v850 is broken beyond repair, and I hope my patch to remove the > > > > architecture will make it into 2.6.27. > > > > > > > > For the other 4 architectures I have Cc'ed the architecture maintainers. > > > > > > There's another set of architectures which have but don't > > > define ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT. Including PowerPC. > > > > > > I think we can probably get away with removing from every > > > architecture other than Alpha, ARM, m68k and x86, and killing > > > ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT completely. > > > > include/linux/a.out.h contains an #include and is exported > > to userspace... > > Actually, it isn't -- but it _should_ be. But we can do it conditionally. > See http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/aout-2.6.git?a=commitdiff;h=5939c6a41 >... It's already in Linus' tree. Sorry, you are right, I missed that it takes care of exporting linux/a.out.h only when asm/a.out.h exists. > dwmw2 cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- 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/