From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932658AbWBTGIg (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:08:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932659AbWBTGIf (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:08:35 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:50605 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932658AbWBTGIf (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:08:35 -0500 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:06:53 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Luke Yang" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix undefined symbols for nommu architecture Message-Id: <20060219220653.58168056.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <489ecd0c0602192157o72d9ba94r1751822dd65abcc3@mail.gmail.com> References: <489ecd0c0602192024o2a136ddera294876ea8fd44a5@mail.gmail.com> <20060219214244.03147dba.akpm@osdl.org> <489ecd0c0602192157o72d9ba94r1751822dd65abcc3@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Luke Yang" wrote: > > > Not so sure about this one. Does randomize_va_space actually make sense in > > a nommu environment? I guess we could load relocatable binaries into a > > randomised place, but I'm not sure that this is implemented? > No, it doesn't make sense now. NOMMU architectures don't really use > it. I put it here just to avoid "undefined symbol" error. > > > > If no, then it would make more sense to do > > > > #define randomize_va_space 0 > Yes, this is much better. Do I need to resend a new patch? Yes please - I'm not set up to compile any nommu architectures.