Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:02:25 -0400 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > > I propose to deprecate this support and remove for 2.6.25. > > Drawback is that someone still runs their system with a.out ld.so > they would need to update the ld.so when updating to a new kernel. > > This patch just adds an entry to the deprecation file and a printk > warning users. > > Comments? >
Makes total sense. This is a highly oddball configuration, and *extremely* unlikely to have a significant user base of modern kernels.
It's been 12 years since we switched to ELF.
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