From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263272AbTDGF7J (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 01:59:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263273AbTDGF7J (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 01:59:09 -0400 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:37071 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263272AbTDGF7H (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 01:59:07 -0400 From: Paul Mackerras MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16017.2065.635724.992168@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:09:37 +1000 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Rusty Russell , Fabrice Bellard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [PATCH] Qemu support for PPC In-Reply-To: <20030407065813.A27933@infradead.org> References: <20030407024858.C32422C014@lists.samba.org> <20030407065813.A27933@infradead.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under Emacs 21.2.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:40:38PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Paul, is this OK? > > > > I'd like it in 2.4.21 if possible. > > Please use sys_personality from userland. sys_personality will fail if there isn't an exec_domain registered for the personality you want. The *whole* *point* of Rusty's patch is to add an execution domain for x86 emulation so we *can* do sys_personality. Did you actually look at the patch, or was your mail just a knee-jerk? > And not, I don't think it should > go into 2.4.21. Get it into 2.5 first. Why? It's a well-contained patch that affects very little outside its own area, and is quite similar to other things that have been there for ages. Anyway, it's not your call. Paul.