linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters

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Message-ID: <20070801200233.GA30240@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:02:33 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ell.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:26:10PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Aug 1 2007 20:35, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> On Aug 1 2007 14:33, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> >Comments?
> >> 
> >> A kconfig entry "(OBSOLETE)"/"(DEPRECATED)" would be nice.
> >> (And if you want to test people, 'depends on EMBEDDED' for CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT)
> >
> >The point is to have less clutter in binfmt_elf.c (which really
> >could need a rewrite btw or at least a lot of cleanup) not add more in form 
> >of ifdefs.
> 
> 
> ---
>  fs/Kconfig.binfmt |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.23/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.23.orig/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
> +++ linux-2.6.23/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config BINFMT_SHARED_FLAT
>  	  Support FLAT shared libraries
>  
>  config BINFMT_AOUT
> -	tristate "Kernel support for a.out and ECOFF binaries"
> +	tristate "Kernel support for a.out and ECOFF binaries (OBSOLETE)"

NAK, binfmt a.out support is something entirely different from what
we're talking about here.
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