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author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2006-07-10 04:45:38 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-07-10 13:24:26 -0700 |
commit | 289fbc21ea5ac445dfb4326090b1912387e849b5 (patch) | |
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parent | 5c318bef5f61baf6bbda2dcfe8c2ef71007c7fea (diff) | |
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[PATCH] disallow modular binfmt_elf32
Currently most architectures either always build binfmt_elf32 in the kernel
image or make it a boolean option. Only sparc64 and s390 allow to build it
modularly. This patch turns the option into a boolean aswell because elf
requires various symbols that shouldn't be available to modules. The most
urgent one is tasklist_lock whos export this patch series kills, but there
are others like force_sgi aswell.
Note that sparc doesn't allow a modular 32bit a.out handler either, and
that would be the more useful case as only few people want 32bit sunos
compatibility and 99.9% of all sparc64 users need 32bit linux native elf
support.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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