linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] FDPIC: Respect PT_GNU_STACK exec protection markings when creating NOMMU stack

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Date:	Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:15:39 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, uclinux-dev@...inux.org,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] FDPIC: Respect PT_GNU_STACK exec protection markings when creating NOMMU stack

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> So these patches and the MN10300 ones didn't get merged.  Presumably
> because they're a grabbag of fixes and non-fixes and kinda-fixes with
> no particular ordering or precedence and they arrived newly-minted
> several days after the release of -rc1.
> 
> I could suggest that you go back and sort them into 2.6.33-appropriate
> fixes and 2.6.34-appropriate non-fixes.
> 
> Or you could try to cook up a good-sounding reason why the whole lot
> needs to go into 2.6.33.  If you believe that ;)

I did send them, plus others, during the merge window (albeit near the end).

I then sent this lot after filtering out the extensions that should probably
wait for the next merge window.

David
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