Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

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To: David Newall <davidn@...>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 11:11 pm

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:57:29PM +1030, David Newall wrote:

Did you? 


Interesting choice of words.


See the rationale in the patch -- any iBCS application will need a significant
kernel patch. If people add this kernel patch they can easily patch the three
more places that detect the executables.

But it does not make sense for all Linux kernels to always check for iBCS executables
when they don't have to code to run them anyways.

Now if iBCS support is truly as important as you claim I'm sure
someone will eventually submit a patch for mainline to support it properly.
If yes the hooks can be readded in a clean way, not in a hackish way
like they currently exists.

-Andi

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[PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Sat Jan 19, 12:59 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jan 25, 8:17 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sat Jan 19, 10:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Sat Jan 19, 11:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sun Jan 20, 12:46 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Sun Jan 20, 1:18 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sun Jan 20, 1:33 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Alan Cox, (Sun Jan 20, 9:06 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sun Jan 20, 9:43 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Alan Cox, (Sun Jan 20, 9:51 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Sun Jan 20, 1:55 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sun Jan 20, 2:23 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Sun Jan 20, 3:29 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Sun Jan 20, 9:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 22, 7:12 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Tue Jan 22, 11:13 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Alan Cox, (Tue Jan 22, 12:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 1:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 22, 12:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 1:04 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Jan 24, 1:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 1:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Pavel Machek, (Thu Jan 24, 3:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 10:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Thu Jan 24, 4:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 10:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Jan 24, 2:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 10:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Alan Cox, (Fri Jan 25, 12:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Jan 22, 11:49 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 1:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Karl Kiniger, (Tue Jan 22, 8:42 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Karl Kiniger, (Tue Jan 22, 6:24 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 23, 4:48 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Karl Kiniger, (Wed Jan 23, 10:12 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 23, 10:24 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Thu Jan 24, 1:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, David Newall, (Tue Jan 22, 11:06 am)
Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 22, 11:52 am)