Re: [PATCH v2] export linux/a.out.h

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 14:20 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:29 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > > Export linux/a.out.h like we do for asm/a.out.h as some applications needs
> > > it (E.G. valgrind). One minor complication is that the content is protected
> > > by an CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT ifdef, so get rid of it.
> >
> > There was a _reason_ for that ifdef, although on reflection probably not
> > a particularly good one. But unless we remove the reason for that ifdef,
> > your patch will break compilation on architectures which don't have
> > <asm/a.out.h>.
> > 
> > We should get rid of CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT entirely. The only
> > remaining users of it are fs/exec.c, which uses it entirely redundantly:
> >         #if defined(__alpha__) && defined(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT)
> > 
> > ...and (indirectly, by virtue of being the only other file that includes
> > <linux/a.out.h> when ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT might be unset) fs/binfmt_elf.c,
> > which still has unnecessary references to 'struct exec' even though Andi
> > removed the support for a.out interpreters a few months ago. That can
> > just go away.
>>
> > Please see  git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/aout-2.6.git
> >
> > David Woodhouse (6):
> >       Include <asm/a.out.h> in fs/exec.c only for Alpha.
> >       Remove last traces of a.out support from ELF loader.
> >       Remove #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT from <linux/a.out.h>
> >       Export <linux/a.out.h> to userspace again.
> >       Remove redundant CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT
> >       Remove references to now-defunct CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT from defconfigs
> >
> > The first four are shown below, as a single combined patch.
> 
> Thanks David, looks good to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>

OK, I'll send just those first four on to Linus for 2.6.26 to fix the
<linux/a.out.h> regression. The rest can wait till later, as discussed.

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dwmw2