linux-kernel - Re: Remove execution domain support

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Date:	Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:31:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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Subject: Re: Remove execution domain support

From: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 23:12:47 +0200

> Am 11.04.2015 um 22:52 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at> wrote:
>>>
>>> The removal will make architecutre specific signal handling easier
>>> and there is no need to keep execuction domains as this feature is
>>> obviously incomplete and abandoned
>> 
>> Ack. The whole exec domain made some code code pretty inscrutable.
>> 
>> So I'd certainly be willing to pull this during the 4.1 merge window
>> if nobody complains.
>> 
>> Anybody?
> 
> It would be great to have an Ack from sparc folks.
> I had to recalculate the values of their TI_* constants
> and I don't have a sparc box to test it.

I'm fine with it, I'll fix it up if needed:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>



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