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

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Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:54:55 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Alberto Pires de Oliveira Neto <apon1@...ra.com.br>,
	giedrius@...lt, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] UML - Add a .note.SuSE section

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:30:56AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> 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???

I agree, what did we mess up in the SuSE kernel to require such a hack?
:)

thanks,

greg k-h
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