On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > I seem to have a different copy of this patch from the one which you > originally sent. It's the one which implements arch_randomize_brk() in > each arch's header file. Mayeb it wasn't cc'ed to a mailing list of > maybe I just lost the email, dunno.
Yes, it should the the last version of this patch, and it should also have gone to lkml. > Anyway, it breaks on ia64: [...] > This is because ia64 takes the exceptional stupidity which is our > elf-handling build system and adds an extra layer of stupidity on top of > it. Look: > akpm2:/usr/src/25> grep -r _ASM_IA64_ELF_H arch/ia64 > arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:#define _ASM_IA64_ELF_H /* Don't > include elf.h */ > can you believe this stuff? Oh, that's pretty crazy indeed. Including of binfmt_elf.c from all over the place is crazy as hell by itself, but this certainly adds a lot of additional mess. > Wanna see if there's something saner we can do please? Apart from rewriting the whole thing to make more sense, I don't see currently a way out of it better than your patch :( -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
