Re: [PATCH 2/3] disallow modular binfmt_elf32

[David Miller]

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 20:05:54 +0200

> Currently most architectures either always build binfmt_elf32 in the
> kernel image or make it a boolean option.  Only sparc64 and s390 allow
> to build it modularly.  This patch turns the option into a boolean
> aswell because elf requires various symbols that shouldn't be available
> to modules.  The most urgent one is tasklist_lock whos export this patch
> series kills, but there are others like force_sgi aswell.
> 
> Note that sparc doesn't allow a modular 32bit a.out handler either, and
> that would be the more useful case as only few people want 32bit sunos
> compatibility and 99.9% of all sparc64 users need 32bit linux native elf
> support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Yeah, I'm ok with this:

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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