From eac616557050737a8d6ef6fe0322d0980ff0ffde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 15:47:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support Linux supports ELF binaries for ~25 years now. a.out coredumping has bitrotten quite significantly and would need some fixing to get it into shape again but considering how even the toolchains cannot create a.out executables in its default configuration, let's deprecate a.out support and remove it a couple of releases later, instead. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Richard Weinberger Cc: Al Viro Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Cc: Cc: lkml Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/x86/um/Kconfig | 1 - 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 68261430fe6e..ade12ec4224b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ config X86_32 select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION select CLKSRC_I8253 select CLONE_BACKWARDS - select HAVE_AOUT select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL select OLD_SIGACTION @@ -2843,6 +2842,7 @@ config IA32_EMULATION config IA32_AOUT tristate "IA32 a.out support" depends on IA32_EMULATION + depends on BROKEN ---help--- Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation. diff --git a/arch/x86/um/Kconfig b/arch/x86/um/Kconfig index f518b4744ff8..494eeb51e4e1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/um/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/um/Kconfig @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ config 64BIT config X86_32 def_bool !64BIT - select HAVE_AOUT select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL select CLONE_BACKWARDS -- GitLab