Re: [PATCH] alpha: binfmt_aout fix

[Ivan Kokshaysky]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:05:49PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:47:38PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> > Fixed by changing the registration order of the default
> > binfmt handlers using list_add_tail() and introducing insert_binfmt()
> > function which places new handler on the top of the binfmt list.
> > This might be generally useful for installing arch-specific frontends
> > for default handlers or just for overriding them.
> 
> Hmm...  How about always doing list_add_tail() instead?

That would fix the module case, but gets broken when binfmt_aout
in built-in, because the generic handlers are registered pretty
early (core_initcall) and alpha binfmt_loader is an arch_initcall.

Ivan.
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