linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cross-architecture ELF clean up

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Message-ID: <467FC985.7080703@anagramm.de>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:56:21 +0200
From:	Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@...gramm.de>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
CC:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cross-architecture ELF clean up

Hi, Roman!

Roman Zippel schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 16:08 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>> This patch cleans up the ELF headers and their users.  It does several
>>> related things:
>> Looks good. We can get away with exporting a lot less of this to
>> userspace too, can't we?
> 
> glibc provides its own version, so it doesn't has to be exported at all.

AFAIK the glibc folks want to rely more on the linux kernel headers
in the future and not provide more or less redundant headers anymore...
Please talk to them about the future plans.

Regards,
-- 
Clemens Koller
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