Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 May 2004 07:23:29 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.6-mm1 |
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On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 06:51:18PM -0700, Wim Coekaerts wrote: > > err, so why did I just merge the hugetlb_shm_group patch? > > because of what you mentioned. it takes a long time before that goes > out, it's not even tested, and it doesn't apply to those 1000's of > existing systems taht will break on upgrade. exactly what you said, it > makes it possible to get to a different way smoothly in time. my > comments were not "we can use it today".
So it's a hack for legacy oracle versions. nice. and for that we introduce completely alien concepts like magic groups into the kernel..
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