Re: [patch 2.6.28-rc2] CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS depends on ELF_CORE

From: David Brownell
Date: Tue Jan 06 2009 - 15:37:20 EST


On Thursday 30 October 2008, David Brownell wrote:
> From: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Kernels that don't support ELF coredumps at all surely can't
> be supporting new partial-segment flavored ELF coredumps ...
> don't make folk answer Kconfig questions about that flavor.

PING?

>
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/Kconfig.binfmt | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
> +++ b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ config BINFMT_ELF_FDPIC
> config CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS
> bool "Write ELF core dumps with partial segments"
> default n
> - depends on BINFMT_ELF
> + depends on BINFMT_ELF && ELF_CORE
> help
> ELF core dump files describe each memory mapping of the crashed
> process, and can contain or omit the memory contents of each one.
>


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