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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:11:53 +0100 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:57:29PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > Can you please queue this patch in -mm for .25. It was posted earlier > > and nobody complained. > > I'm sure I complained. I'm sure I said something about SCO Did you? > compatibility. This is a sleeping giant for Linux. There are plenty of Interesting choice of words. > machines running legacy SCO applications, just waiting for painless > migration to some other platform. > > We should not be dismantling the scaffolding that's needed for that. See the rationale in the patch -- any iBCS application will need a significant kernel patch. If people add this kernel patch they can easily patch the three more places that detect the executables. But it does not make sense for all Linux kernels to always check for iBCS executables when they don't have to code to run them anyways. Now if iBCS support is truly as important as you claim I'm sure someone will eventually submit a patch for mainline to support it properly. If yes the hooks can be readded in a clean way, not in a hackish way like they currently exists. -Andi > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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