Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

From: John Reiser <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:35:40 -0700

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:32 -0500
> Nathan Lynch <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> [snip]
>> A new aux vector entry, AT_BASE_PLATFORM, will denote the actual hardware.
[snip]

> OK.
> 
> But it conflicts directly with the already-queued
> execve-filename-document-and-export-via-auxiliary-vector.patch

[snip]

It seems to me that most of the patch conflicts are mechanical
and could be merged mechanically.

However I believe that the documentation change to this comment is important:
-----
>  #ifdef __KERNEL__
> -#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE (14 + 2) /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
> +#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE 17 /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */
> +  /* number of "#define AT_.*" above, minus {AT_NULL, AT_IGNORE, AT_NOTELF} */
>  #endif
-----
I scratched my head for a while to figure out that AT_NOTELF also was
a subtraction as far as AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE was concerned.

-- 
John Reiser, [email-masked]