linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] MN10300: Permit AOUT library support to be suppressed in ELF binfmt

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Message-Id: <20071026122637.f9b86bdd.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:26:37 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-am33-list@...hat.com, dhowells@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MN10300: Permit AOUT library support to be
 suppressed in ELF binfmt

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:42:15 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> Permit AOUT library support to be suppressed in the ELF binfmt if the arch does
> not support it.  AOUT support is suppressed by adding:
> 
> 	config NO_AOUT_SUPPORT
> 		def_bool y
> 
> to the arch Kconfig file.
> 
> The MN10300 architecture does not support the AOUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt
> should not be permitted to go looking for AOUT libraries to load.
> 

hm, seems a bit ungainly.  Why can't we just make all the aout things in
binfmt_elf.c depend upon CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT?

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