Re: [PATCH] alpha: binfmt_aout fix

[Ivan Kokshaysky]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 03:52:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It would make sense to register the core, default handlers first and
> to permit arch-specific handlers to then override (or to front-end) the
> core handlers.

Yes, sounds good. I'll make a patch for 2.6.30.

> But that sounds a bit risky for 2.6.29.  Is this fix needed in 2.6.29? 
> If so, perhaps we should merge version 1 as a temporary thing.  But if
> so, please let's not do the temporary-thing-which-hangs-around-forever thing?

Just drop it. The bug is not so terribly critical (I don't think that a lot
of people are using osf binaries these days).

Ivan.
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