linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] setarch: Add --uname-2.6 option for personality flag UNAME26

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Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:43:50 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	util-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] setarch: Add --uname-2.6 option for personality flag
 UNAME26

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:16:01PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 07:00:01AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> > ---
> > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 16:15 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > [...]
> > > To use:
> > > 
> > > wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c
> > > gcc -o uname26 uname26.c
> > > ./uname26 program
> > [...]
> > 
> > I would suggest adding this to setarch, as that handles all the other
> > personality flags.  The following patch to util-linux seems to do the
> > trick.
> 
>  I have one simple rule: "Linus' tree first", and I don't see UNAME26
>  in include/linux/personality.h ...

It's in Linus's tree now, and will be in the next 3.0.y stable release.

thanks,

greg k-h
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