Messages in this thread | | | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] um: mark CONFIG_HIGHMEM as broken | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:39:17 +0100 |
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Am Freitag 12 November 2010, 20:29:04 schrieb Andrew Morton: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:18:08 +0100 > > Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote: > > Currently CONFIG_HIGHMEM is broken on User Mode Linux. > > I'm not sure if it worked ever. > > What is "broken" about it?
Currently it does not even build. This is very annoying when using "make randconfig".
And it was never stable. See commit ce2d2aed: commit ce2d2aedcc3ca582fed90f44970e8b3e4f006a7d Author: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Date: Wed Jan 18 17:42:59 2006 -0800
[PATCH] uml: arch Kconfig menu cleanups
*) mark as "EXPERIMENTAL" various items that either aren't very stable or that are actively crashing the setup of users which don't really need them (i.e. HIGHMEM and 3-level pagetables on x86 - nobody needs either, everybody reports "I'm using it and getting trouble").
*) move net/Kconfig near to the rest of network configurations, and drivers/block/Kconfig near "Block layer" submenu.
*) it's useless and doesn't work well to force NETDEVICES on and to disable the prompt like it's done. Better remove the attempt, and change that to a simple "default y if UML".
*) drop the warning about "report problems about HPPFS" - it's redundant anyway, as that's the usual procedure, and HPPFS users are especially technical (i.e. they know reporting bugs is _good_).
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Thanks, //richard
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