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There has been repeated discussion on removing a.out support, the most recent was[1]. Having read through a bunch of the discussion it looks like no one has see any reason why we need to keep a.out support. The m68k maintainer has even come out in favor of removing a.out support[2]. At a practical level with only two rarely used architectures building a.out support, it gets increasingly hard to test and to care about. Which means the code will almost certainly bit-rot. Let's see if anyone cares about a.out support on the last two architectures that build it, by disabling the build of the support in Kconfig. If anyone cares, this can be easily reverted, and we can then have a discussion about what it is going to take to support a.out binaries in the long term. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220113160115.5375-1-bp@alien8.de [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdUbTNNr16YY1TFe=-uRLjg6yGzgw_RqtAFpyhnOMM5Pvw@mail.gmail.com Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87ilsmdhb5.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdVLyu6LNONJa1QcMGv__bWSCRvVq9haD7=fOm1k5O3Pnw@mail.gmail.com