Re: [PATCH mm] Remove deprecation of a.out ELF interpreters

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 01:11:45 EST


On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:09:19 +0100 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:29:15PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:40:41 +0100
> > Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Andrew has already queued the patch to remove the support for a.out
> > > ELF interpreters. So remove the deprecation with it too.
> > >
> >
> > I'm trying to find which patch I might have queued which did this and came
> > up blank.
>
> Sorry I somehow thought you had it queued.
>
> My patch makes parts of David's patch obsolete because he makes
> the code ifdef, but I remove the code completely. David also
> does some other cleanups which still make sense.
>
> So I think the correct way is to apply my patch first and then David's
> and just ignore all the rejects and refresh. The result should be correct.
>
> Basically after that only the core dump changes in David's patch should
> be left over.
>
> Can you do that or should I resubmit both patches in a merged form?
> (I can do that too)
>

Your patch on top of rc8-mm1 would be simplest for me.

I'm at a bit of a loss because I don't appear to have a copy of the patch
which we're discussing handy.

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