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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:54:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@...ulus.org> To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] binfmt_elf: FatELF support for kernel modules. > > Allows kernel modules to be FatELF binaries. > > This seems much more dubious. It would only encourage more binary > modules, which we're not very keen on doing. I can understand that concern, but I worry about refusing to take steps that would aid free software developers in case it might help the closed-source people, too. Those that will behave badly will do so regardless of file formats, but distros shipping nothing but GPL'd software and in-tree drivers would benefit from this more than another misguided company that probably doesn't care about multiple CPU architectures anyhow. --ryan. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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