Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] disallow modular binfmt_elf32 | From | Martin Schwidefsky <> | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:27:58 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 08:06 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:05:54PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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. > > [...] > > Index: linux-2.6/arch/s390/Kconfig > > =================================================================== > > --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/s390/Kconfig 2006-07-06 14:21:17.000000000 +0200 > > +++ linux-2.6/arch/s390/Kconfig 2006-07-08 19:08:46.000000000 +0200 > > @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ > > default y > > > > config BINFMT_ELF32 > > - tristate "Kernel support for 31 bit ELF binaries" > > + bool "Kernel support for 31 bit ELF binaries" > > depends on COMPAT > > help > > Martin and I discussed this already a few days ago. This config option > should go away on s390, since everybody who wants CONFIG_COMPAT also wants > CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF32. See patch below which applies on top of yours:
Yes, the removal of the BINFMT_ELF32 Kconfig option has been part of the s390 Kconfig cleanup patch as well, it is supposed to go away.
-- blue skies, Martin.
Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
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