Re: [PATCH] a.out: Remove the a.out implementation

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, at 12:15 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

In commit 19e8b701e258 ("a.out: Stop building a.out/osf1 support on
alpha and m68k") the last users of a.out were disabled.

As nothing has turned up to cause this change to be reverted, let's
remove the code implementing a.out support as well.

There may be userspace users of the uapi bits left so the uapi
headers have been left untouched.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>
---

I was reminded that while this code was successfully disabled
in the kernel we haven't deleted it yet.

Kees can you pick this up.

 MAINTAINERS                           |   1 -
 arch/alpha/include/asm/a.out.h        |  16 --
 arch/alpha/kernel/Makefile            |   4 -
 arch/alpha/kernel/binfmt_loader.c     |  46 ----
 arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c           |  30 ---
 arch/arm/configs/badge4_defconfig     |   1 -
 arch/arm/configs/corgi_defconfig      |   1 -
 arch/arm/configs/ezx_defconfig        |   1 -
 arch/arm/configs/footbridge_defconfig |   1 -
 arch/arm/configs/hackkit_defconfig    |   1 -
 arch/arm/configs/iop32x_defconfig     |   1 -
 arch/arm/configs/jornada720_defconfig |   1 -
 arch/arm/configs/lart_defconfig       |   1 -
 arch/arm/configs/neponset_defconfig   |   1 -
 arch/arm/configs/netwinder_defconfig  |   1 -
 arch/arm/configs/rpc_defconfig        |   1 -
 arch/arm/configs/spitz_defconfig      |   1 -
 fs/Kconfig.binfmt                     |  33 ---
 fs/Makefile                           |   1 -
 fs/binfmt_aout.c                      | 342 --------------------------
 fs/exec.c                             |   3 +-
 include/linux/a.out.h                 |  18 --
 22 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 505 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/alpha/include/asm/a.out.h
 delete mode 100644 arch/alpha/kernel/binfmt_loader.c
 delete mode 100644 fs/binfmt_aout.c
 delete mode 100644 include/linux/a.out.h

For the arm defconfigs:

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>