On Okt 25 2024, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Doing it without a migration path seems worse to me, as this would mean breaking every single existing installation between two kernels, and making it impossible to bisect other issues, and breaking the rule #1.
That's why I didn't change the alignment when I implemented ELF. It would have made it impossible to mix an a.out kernel with ELF user space, and vice versa. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
