linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:19:48 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, roland@...hat.com,
	Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:10 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > Should I seek somebody's ack before merging a patch like the one below ?
> > 
> > I'm a bit reluctant to merge via the powerpc.git tree some changes to
> > generic files without at least an ack from somebody else :-)
> 
> Gaah. Generally we don't, but you're right to ask. The ELF loading keeps 
> on accumulating these things, and I'm not sure we have the right process 
> for things like this. They're all individually small and insignificant, 
> and they are all individually never going away and making the ELF loader 
> messier and messier.

Yeah, annoying. Oh well, this one at least is now getting Andrew's
scrutinity...

Cheers,
Ben.


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