linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support

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Message-ID: <20190305173249.GF8256@zn.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 5 Mar 2019 18:32:49 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 05:30:13PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> We might want to also delete the then-unused aout_dump_thread()
> implementations from the various arch trees. We probably want to
> delete arch/*/include/asm/a.out-core.h, since that seems to be the
> only thing these headers do, and the only thing that uses them is
> fs/binfmt_aout.c?

Right.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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