From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD57C43381 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2019 16:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608C920663 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2019 16:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730050AbfCFQ4e (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2019 11:56:34 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.130]:45595 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726805AbfCFQ4e (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2019 11:56:34 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.110] ([95.118.27.116]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue012 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1Mm9NA-1hRnph1DtY-00iDdm; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:56:01 +0100 Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support To: Linus Torvalds , Borislav Petkov Cc: Alan Cox , Matthew Wilcox , Jann Horn , Al Viro , Thomas Gleixner , kernel list , linux-fsdevel , the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux API , Andrew Morton , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov References: <20190305091904.GB8256@zn.tnic> <20190305122218.GD13380@bombadil.infradead.org> <20190305134347.4be2449c@alans-desktop> <20190305145717.GD8256@zn.tnic> From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" Organization: metux IT consult Message-ID: Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 17:55:58 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:qQdC/PAavTFEs+teiYJ34POjsxSGVEk4PzSRMxDKmleqc/vyPD0 JcbTQE4f297owrSuql777TRojpQrpm2XMVkGXocEXenfFigyzReo2cwt6V+vbLp1foaquH3 TsVeGNbIIy1vnAI+GZ8nz2IYVnJGZFHO66o9AsE87TaN/zLQr2sAhS99zqkedRkSPzWtxYW wXuUAyIrvaovhKN/hF8Xw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:8tQgXNG17cY=:xdVHxHvmwi8Au1RxeU4b76 /cg8izsCQZ+SU5oKGhGeUfJuyaAV1YQlOFs4zs4H2gm2SzLMWmwsaYFZYfthyGHhETh8v4gFO SfTemsg94lFxBmsZtQ3t/qX28ulwkqzKG5G+PEJI0kuOROtZL57c0HOfciwiBxdFFrNcFeoal pUEiJ+110U90POgucn4utsYDuDG7Xf4C5YoGVNqX3tqnGwLA4cbqjdFUkUesnuriv2ttoviFJ OR74sc1QvoxsD3c6S/jXbqQXs91GFQiQXRVGJkyOzQDWcIll0H3ZAGBWrnLmWpdkMidtF0Oun l2h1ybxhltAlasIBLB52h2lfiA5QCC+xE/voQuAlR/OnXWQMR1Irp8mj3p7Eo5f8NQuCVXt4D k2MlpOXrUrz8xt/KdBTnqdiE7hkdNaZLCkboeIig14de1djhNGAsdJwAWDjkWAnPAope+BVPU W7e5BH0KLoRksGARqtKkic3ZOG8HDQP1lOOTa5zbw/7fWuIqfZLMfEa/u+Al1SoMpN7L+2fYx SAx5OrIvPhKlE8VK6Od7Vclhy7Eg/gslGk9hR9W+O62JfcyUpVD6V7haaj1MveiWscggqyZ+G hXBf6KDPebGJJLiWiw/Efs0pTzQPiTuHpsnl5F3XD6gKoAroiAb/2YfXwKFF5cJNWhA998xik JwP2dafoMD2Q0j/opMQFnK/RYP+KiLnC9om9nY+iXKoBShY/5t6kcs50yHKvyyAv0Th/XMXLx KeckniS7AMJ1lLtet72497Q7N4miNUcBUMCqdhU049vE60Uj6Ag8M++BDUg= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05.03.19 17:22, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 6:59 AM Borislav Petkov wrote: >> >> We can at least deprecate it on x86... > > I'd prefer to try to deprecate a.out core dumping first.. That's the > part that is actually broken, no? > > In fact, I'd be happy to deprecate a.out entirely, but if somebody > _does_ complain, I'd like to be able to bring it back without the core > dumping. Maybe make it depend on BROKEN ? --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287