Re: [PATCH] Unexport asm/user.h and linux/user.h

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From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 2:06 pm

Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

The version that is in there is currently broken from a user-space 
perspective (gdb expects u_ar0 to be struct user_regs_struct *, which it 
isn't for a bunch of the architectures defined); it *could* be argued 
the right thing is to fix it up since it *does* export an ABI
-- specifically, the format of a.out core dumps -- but it is probably 
easier to just axe it; userspace has had to deal with this issue on its 
own for a long time already.

As such,

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

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[PATCH] Unexport asm/page.h, Kirill A. Shutemov, (Wed Oct 31, 8:49 am)
[PATCH] Unexport asm/elf.h, Kirill A. Shutemov, (Wed Oct 31, 8:49 am)
[PATCH] Unexport asm/user.h and linux/user.h, Kirill A. Shutemov, (Wed Oct 31, 8:49 am)
[PATCH] Cleanup asm/{elf,page,user}.h: #ifdef __KERNEL__ i ..., Kirill A. Shutemov, (Wed Oct 31, 8:49 am)
Re: [PATCH] Unexport asm/user.h and linux/user.h, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Oct 31, 2:06 pm)
[PATCH] Sanitize the type of struct user.u_ar0, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Oct 31, 2:10 pm)