Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 05:01:15PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Commit
> 
>   eac616557050 ("x86: Deprecate a.out support")
> 
> deprecated a.out support with the promise to remove it a couple of
> releases later. That commit landed in v5.1.
> 
> Now it is more than a couple of releases later, no one has complained so
> remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

Let's pour one out for being able to run Minix binaries on Linux.  :-)

Speaking of which, if we're doing this, are there some old system
calls that we could remove at the same time?

      	       	       	     	  - Ted