Re: [PATCH 1/4] FDPIC: Respect PT_GNU_STACK exec protection markings when creating NOMMU stack

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Dec 31 2009 - 06:16:00 EST


Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So these patches and the MN10300 ones didn't get merged. Presumably
> because they're a grabbag of fixes and non-fixes and kinda-fixes with
> no particular ordering or precedence and they arrived newly-minted
> several days after the release of -rc1.
>
> I could suggest that you go back and sort them into 2.6.33-appropriate
> fixes and 2.6.34-appropriate non-fixes.
>
> Or you could try to cook up a good-sounding reason why the whole lot
> needs to go into 2.6.33. If you believe that ;)

I did send them, plus others, during the merge window (albeit near the end).

I then sent this lot after filtering out the extensions that should probably
wait for the next merge window.

David
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