Messages in this thread |  | | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] sysinfo compatibility | Date | 22 Aug 2001 08:40:32 +0200 |
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Hi Alan,
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote: >> > There are callers who did add ram + swap >> And that's a reason to break compatibility? > > We had to break compatibility anyway for 2.4
Only for machines with more than 4G swap or ram, not swap + ram. My patch addresses only this case where we did not fix anything (for the kernel space) but broke something. Please keep in mind that 2-4 GB machines where quite common also for 2.2.
Greetings Christoph
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