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

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wg0bY=RFhD4NW9x++fC0bME=_-9xM3kexGGM3gefHQTyQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 5 Mar 2019 09:58:28 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        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 5, 2019 at 9:31 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
>
> So how do you wanna handle this?
>
> I guess the easiest would be if you apply your patch directly now and
> add the a.out phase-out strategy we're going for in its commit message
> so that people are aware of what we're doing.

Yup, I'll just do that. I'll fix up my patch to be more complete (ie
the a.out-core.h removal Jann pointed out).

I'll talk about removing a.out support entirely in the commit message.
I'd be ok for that to be a total removal, but maybe there are some
architectures that still have that as a "main" format?

Or I could just apply your patch after removing the core-dumping. Comments?

               Linus