Re: [PATCH 1/2] MN10300: Permit AOUT library support to besuppressed in ELF binfmt

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Oct 26 2007 - 15:27:08 EST


On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:42:15 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Permit AOUT library support to be suppressed in the ELF binfmt if the arch does
> not support it. AOUT support is suppressed by adding:
>
> config NO_AOUT_SUPPORT
> def_bool y
>
> to the arch Kconfig file.
>
> The MN10300 architecture does not support the AOUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt
> should not be permitted to go looking for AOUT libraries to load.
>

hm, seems a bit ungainly. Why can't we just make all the aout things in
binfmt_elf.c depend upon CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT?

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