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On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:11, Roger Luethi wrote: >> I have a few minor changes coming up as well. >> One nitpick: As vmexe and vmlib are always 0 for !CONFIG_MMU, we should >> ifdef them out of the list of offered fields for that configuration (and >> maybe in nproc_ps_field as well). On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:25:56PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > No. First of all, I think they can be offered. Until proven > otherwise, I'll assume that the !CONFIG_MMU case is buggy. > Second of all, removal will make the !CONFIG_MMU systems > less compatible with the rest of the world. This will > mean that fewer apps can run on !CONFIG_MMU boxes. It's > same problem as "All the world's a VAX". It's better that > the apps work; an author working on a Pentium 4 Xeon is > likely to write code that relies on the fields and might > not really understand what "no MMU" is all about. Would the nommu bits I wrote be satisfactory for you? -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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