From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757405AbZBSJkq (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:40:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754047AbZBSJkh (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:40:37 -0500 Received: from jurassic.park.msu.ru ([195.208.223.243]:33441 "EHLO jurassic.park.msu.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753713AbZBSJkh (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:40:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:40:42 +0300 From: Ivan Kokshaysky To: Andrew Morton Cc: hch@infradead.org, rth@twiddle.net, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] alpha: binfmt_aout fix Message-ID: <20090219094042.GA19049@jurassic.park.msu.ru> References: <20090217104956.GC25856@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20090217110842.GA22272@infradead.org> <20090217114054.GA26176@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20090218155231.8b8c8b9f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090218155231.8b8c8b9f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.