Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:59:52 +0200 | From | Gaudenz Steinlin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] restore export of handle_mm_fault for Mac on Linux |
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:51:31AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:45:02PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > Has been rejected a few times. An now that we actually have kvm > > > for powerpc in tree MOL should just merge with that project and > > > do the right things in tree instead of beeing a really hacky > > > module subverting the VM. > > > > We don't have KVM for the "classic" 32-bit PowerPC processors, only > > for the 44x family. And doing KVM for the classic 32-bit processors > > would probably involve just as much hackery as MOL. :) > > I don't think so. Doing it properly in-tree will mean that it is > > a) properly reviewed > b) means we can do the major VM bits in the kernel without these > really stupid exports > > Have you looked at MOL recently? It's more than disgusting. > > And in addition to these issue we do of course as policy not add > random hooks in the kernel tree for out of tree stuff. Especially > for hacks like this that don't even have the intention to get merged.
This is not true anymore. See my other message to this thread. Joseph Jezak is working on a mergeable module.
Gaudenz
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