linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm] Remove deprecation of a.out ELF interpreters

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Message-Id: <20080130221138.97cc32f1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:11:38 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm] Remove deprecation of a.out ELF interpreters

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:09:19 +0100 Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:15PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:40:41 +0100
> > Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Andrew has already queued the patch to remove the support for a.out
> > > ELF interpreters. So remove the deprecation with it too.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm trying to find which patch I might have queued which did this and came
> > up blank. 
> 
> Sorry I somehow thought you had it queued.
> 
> My patch makes parts of David's patch obsolete because he makes 
> the code ifdef, but I remove the code completely. David also
> does some other cleanups which still make sense. 
> 
> So I think the correct way is to apply my patch first and then David's
> and just ignore all the rejects and refresh.  The result should be correct.
> 
> Basically after that only the core dump changes in David's patch should
> be left over.
> 
> Can you do that or should I resubmit both patches in a merged form?
> (I can do that too) 
> 

Your patch on top of rc8-mm1 would be simplest for me.

I'm at a bit of a loss because I don't appear to have a copy of the patch
which we're discussing handy.

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