linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kill USE_ELF_CORE

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Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:05:04 +0200
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...alogix.com>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 09:50:10PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Currently all architectures but microblaze unconditionally define
> USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP.  The microblaze ommision seems like an error to
> me, so let's  kill this ifdef and make sure we are the same everywhere.

USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP was introduced in 2.6.11.  Already back then all
architectures did define it unconditionally in <asm/elf.h> so there may
never have been any real use for it.

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>

  Ralf
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