linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] a.out: Stop building a.out/osf1 support on alpha and m68k

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Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:09:44 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
        Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
        Michael Cree <mcree@...on.net.nz>,
        Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] a.out: Stop building a.out/osf1 support on alpha and m68k

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 9:04 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> There has been repeated discussion on removing a.out support, the most
> recent was[1].  Having read through a bunch of the discussion it looks
> like no one has see any reason why we need to keep a.out support.
>
> The m68k maintainer has even come out in favor of removing a.out
> support[2].
>
> At a practical level with only two rarely used architectures building
> a.out support, it gets increasingly hard to test and to care about.
> Which means the code will almost certainly bit-rot.
>
> Let's see if anyone cares about a.out support on the last two
> architectures that build it, by disabling the build of the support in
> Kconfig.  If anyone cares, this can be easily reverted, and we can then
> have a discussion about what it is going to take to support a.out
> binaries in the long term.
>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>
> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>
> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
> Cc: linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> Cc: linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220113160115.5375-1-bp@alien8.de
> [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdUbTNNr16YY1TFe=-uRLjg6yGzgw_RqtAFpyhnOMM5Pvw@mail.gmail.com
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

>  arch/m68k/Kconfig  | 1 -

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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