Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Dec 1998 12:56:18 +0000 (GMT) | From | Chris Evans <> | Subject | Re: 960MB limitation for 2.2 ? |
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On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> if you have followed how 2.1 evolved, it _was_ actually a kernel config > option when my patch went in. So people started playing with it and it was > very easy to mess the kernel up. Yes it had a help entry. It happened a > few times, then the config option was removed.
Removing it seems silly. If users can't be trusted to get it right then don't expose the settable option through the "make config" "make menuconfig" etc. interfaces. But by all means leave the #define (heavily commented of course) in a Makefile or include somewhere.
Chris
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