Re: [PATCH] Don't include linux/a.out.h unnecessarily

From: Nathan Lynch
Date: Tue Jan 04 2005 - 16:30:00 EST


On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:51, David Howells wrote:
> The attached patch prevents unnecessary inclusion of linux/a.out.h since not
> all archs support AOUT and thus may not have asm/a.out.h.
>
> There was a patch included for this previously, but it seems to have been
> dropped.

Because it breaks the alpha build. There's a big #ifdef __alpha__ block
in search_binary_handler() which uses definitions from asm/a.out.h.

Sorry, I should have cc'd you on my original report:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/263714


Nathan

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