Commit eac61655 authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 08300f44
......@@ -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.
......
......@@ -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
......
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