Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 May 1998 16:34:43 +0200 | From | ak@muc ... | Subject | Re: oh woe, oh woe, oh woe is me... [2.0.34p16 + 3com] |
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On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 03:58:44PM +0200, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> > Date: 27 May 1998 17:18:59 +0200 > > For some other "features" I agree with you tho. My standard example > for bloat is the simp allocator in 2.1 (mm/simp.c). It someday got > added, was never used and still uses about 3K. I tried several > times to send a patch to remove it to Linus (because it is clear > that I won't be used at least before 2.2, and slab is much better > anyways), but no luck :( > > It's been removed in the vger CVS if you've been paying attention, > Linus even removed it from the mm/Makefile in his tree, and I will > send off patches to the linux-patches archive to finish the removal. > This has been pending for a while, but other unimportant activities > like bug fixes and shooting for a 2.2.x release have got in the way of > Linus's and my time, sorry.
If it has been removed I apologize. Last time I ran "cvs update" on vger (2 days ago) I think it wasn't. I'm pretty sure that I would have noticed if it had been changed, because I removed it locally in my tree and I would have been biten by the reject.
Thanks,
-Andi
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