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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:17:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080125121734.GA20442@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080119045918.GA12215@basil.nowhere.org>


* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> Remove ibcs2 support in ELF loader too
> 
> ibcs2 support has never been supported on 2.6 kernels as far as I 
> know, and if it has it must have been an external patch. Anyways, if 
> anybody applies an external patch they could as well readd the ibcs 
> checking code to the ELF loader in the same patch. But there is no 
> reason to keep this code running in all Linux kernels. This will save 
> at least two strcmps each ELF execution.
> 
> No deprecation period because it could not have been used anyways.

thanks Andi, i have applied your cleanup patch to x86.git a couple of 
days ago and it (no surprise) caused no testing problems so far. (I dont 
think we need to backport this cleanup to v2.6.24.1, as iBCS2 support 
was never present in any upstream Linux kernel anyway)

	Ingo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-25 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-19  4:59 Andi Kleen
2008-01-20  2:27 ` David Newall
2008-01-20  3:11   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20  4:46     ` David Newall
2008-01-20  5:18       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20  5:33         ` David Newall
2008-01-20  5:55           ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20  6:23             ` David Newall
2008-01-20  7:29               ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-21  1:37                 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 10:24                   ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-22 15:06                     ` David Newall
2008-01-22 15:52                       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-23  8:48                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-23 14:12                       ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-23 14:24                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-24 17:06                           ` David Newall
2008-01-22 11:12                   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 12:42                     ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-22 15:13                     ` David Newall
2008-01-22 15:49                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-24 17:01                         ` David Newall
2008-01-22 16:01                       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-24 17:04                         ` David Newall
2008-01-24 17:24                           ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-24 17:55                             ` David Newall
2008-01-24 18:14                               ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-25  2:14                                 ` David Newall
2008-01-25  5:12                                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-25 16:40                                   ` Alan Cox
2008-01-24 19:51                               ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-25  2:17                                 ` David Newall
2008-01-24 20:37                               ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-25  2:16                                 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 16:50                       ` Alan Cox
2008-01-24 17:08                         ` David Newall
2008-01-22 13:20                 ` Giulio
2008-01-20 13:06           ` Alan Cox
2008-01-20 13:43             ` David Newall
2008-01-20 13:51               ` Alan Cox
2008-01-25 12:17 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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