linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] UML - Add a .note.SuSE section

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Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:30:56 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, stable@...nel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Alberto Pires de Oliveira Neto <apon1@...ra.com.br>,
	giedrius@...lt
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UML - Add a .note.SuSE section


On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:24 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> [ This is both 2.6.24 and -stable material ]
> 
> SuSE seems to require that binaries have a .note.SuSE section.
> Without it, UML segfaults if any parameters are passed on the command
> line.


this sounds like something really stupid and bad... why would the kernel
need to have a per-distro note section???


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