On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:42:35AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:26:54PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > >... > > Actually, I think we can drop the preceding patch too -- it's not > > necessary to fix the regression in 2.6.26, and dhowells suggests that we > > might still want to use ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT, by making BINFMT_AOUT depend > > on it instead of that hard-coded list of architectures. > > > > If we do that, then ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT would need to be defined on a > > different set of architectures to the ones it's currently defined on -- > > so I don't really want to go there before 2.6.26. I'll push just the > > parts which were included in the mail I just sent. > > > > Why _are_ there architectures which define ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT and have > > <asm/a.out.h> but don't support binfmt_aout, anyway? How does that make > > sense? > > My guess would be that binfmt_aout isn't actually used there. > > The affected architectures are: > - h8300 > - m32r > - parisc > - sh > - v850 > > v850 is broken beyond repair, and I hope my patch to remove the > architecture will make it into 2.6.27. > > For the other 4 architectures I have Cc'ed the architecture maintainers. > There was never an a.out format for any of sh/h8300/m32r. It's likely just perpetuated damage copied over from the other ports, as in the parisc case. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
