ARM: 7886/1: make OABI default to off

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Gitweb:     http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b02f84671cd0c69400daf1595e7c321ea8e6c657
Commit:     b02f84671cd0c69400daf1595e7c321ea8e6c657
Parent:     f3db3f4389dbd9a8c2b4477f37a6ebddfd670ad8
Author:     Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
AuthorDate: Sat Nov 9 00:31:11 2013 +0100
Committer:  Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
CommitDate: Thu Nov 14 11:13:13 2013 +0000

    ARM: 7886/1: make OABI default to off
    
    Given recent discussions about the lack of OABI in the wild, switch
    CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT to off-by-default to encourage more system builders
    to avoid it.
    
    Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
    Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
    Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
    Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 603d661..fa5c600 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1719,7 +1719,6 @@ config AEABI
 config OABI_COMPAT
 	bool "Allow old ABI binaries to run with this kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on AEABI && !THUMB2_KERNEL
-	default y
 	help
 	  This option preserves the old syscall interface along with the
 	  new (ARM EABI) one. It also provides a compatibility layer to
@@ -1731,7 +1730,7 @@ config OABI_COMPAT
 	  can say N here. If this option is not selected and you attempt
 	  to execute a legacy ABI binary then the result will be
 	  UNPREDICTABLE (in fact it can be predicted that it won't work
-	  at all). If in doubt say Y.
+	  at all). If in doubt say N.
 
 config ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL
 	bool



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