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Subject: Re: 2.4.19 make allmodconfig - undefined symbols
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 17:10, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> My impression is that nowadays it's extremely unlikely that someone tries
> to run a current 2.4 kernel on an a.out system - and since there weren't
> reports of people trying to build binfmt_elf as a module it seems noone
> actually hits this problem. Instead of exporting one symbol that is only
> needed in pathological setups I'd suggest the following patch to disallow
> the modular bulding of binfmt_elf:

If people want module ELF fine by me. The simpler fix is already in -ac,
which is to do the stack peturbation unconditionally.

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