From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] a.out: Remove the a.out implementation
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:36:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <166424619048.1957636.14312901276184216710.b4-ty@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qrx3hq3.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org>
On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:15:32 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> In commit 19e8b701e258 ("a.out: Stop building a.out/osf1 support on
> alpha and m68k") the last users of a.out were disabled.
>
> As nothing has turned up to cause this change to be reverted, let's
> remove the code implementing a.out support as well.
>
> There may be userspace users of the uapi bits left so the uapi
> headers have been left untouched.
>
> [...]
Let's do it! It can always be reverted. :) My favorite kind of patch:
> 22 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 505 deletions(-)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Applied to for-next/execve, thanks!
[1/1] a.out: Remove the a.out implementation
https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/795d91fe0e13
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-27 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-26 22:15 [PATCH] a.out: Remove the a.out implementation Eric W. Biederman
2022-09-27 2:36 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2022-09-27 7:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
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