Re: [PATCH -mm 05/43] compat_binfmt_elf

On Thursday 20 December 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:
> This adds fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c, a wrapper around fs/binfmt_elf.c for
> 32-bit ELF support on 64-bit kernels.  It can replace all the hand-rolled
> versions of this that each 32/64 arch has, which are all about the same.

Great stuff! I've attempted to do this a few times over the past years,
but could never get my head around it. One more bit of broken compat
code gone from the architectures!

	Arnd <><
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