From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756614AbYAYMSA (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:18:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754119AbYAYMRv (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:17:51 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:57773 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754109AbYAYMRv (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:17:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:17:34 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andi Kleen Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support Message-ID: <20080125121734.GA20442@elte.hu> References: <20080119045918.GA12215@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080119045918.GA12215@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andi Kleen 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