Re: [PATCH] binfmt_flat: minimum support for theBlackfin relocations

Andrew, could you please add this patch to -mm.
As we discussed here, it should be OK for us.

Thanks,
- Bryan Wu
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 11:32 +0800, David McCullough wrote:

Jivin Robin Getz lays it down ...
On Thu 20 Sep 2007 11:03, David McCullough pondered:
I would say that (a) is definately not the case. I am sure the BF
guys
will say they have been banging us on the head with changes for a
long
time and getting no where as we considered the changes to severe
or out
of line.

I don't think we have been "banging heads" with you (unless that is
your
feeling?) - how about "working together, but diverting to satisfy
different
needs" :)

No head banging feelings here, but I would understand if you guys
felt
that way occasionally ;-) I obviously forgot the happy face on that
statement. It was meant as a good thing.

I think that we have had more issues in the uClinux-dist (userspace
and build
environment), but for kernel code, we have moved from some
non-standard
(stupid) things we were doing early on to what we have today - which
is as
common/standard with other archs as we can be.

Although this is slightly off topic - on the uClinux distribution
side - most
of our changes are based on requirements/desires from being able to
support
fdpic elf and flat formats, and to attempt to make things easier for
end
users/us to use/maintain. Where we do make changes - we always send
the patch
upstream and have the conversation with you (not everyone else does
this),
and some/most times rework things so they are more acceptable to
you. We
don't always come to an agreement - but we always have the
discussion, and
are willing to move if we can make things better that still meets
both our
needs/desires.

This particular patch was trivial in comparison to others I've
seen,

That is what we thought.

it fixed all the existing arches (not something that is always
done) and
seemed a reasonable start to finally get the BF guys up and
running.
Still, happy to make it better of course ;-)

As always - we are more than happy to explore/review alternative
patches if
people want to write/sumbit them.

Cheers,
Davidm

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