Re: [stable] [PATCH] UML - Add a .note.SuSE section

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:30:56AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:24 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > [ This is both 2.6.24 and -stable material ]
> > 
> > SuSE seems to require that binaries have a .note.SuSE section.
> > Without it, UML segfaults if any parameters are passed on the command
> > line.
> 
> 
> this sounds like something really stupid and bad... why would the kernel
> need to have a per-distro note section???

I agree, what did we mess up in the SuSE kernel to require such a hack?
:)

thanks,

greg k-h
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