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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.40-ac1
To: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:20:03 -0400 (EDT)
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> The sepearate one is horrible maintaince wise.  Please introduce
> CONFIG_MMU and try to make as many _files_ in mm/ conditional on
> those.  Else use the proper ways (cond_syscall(), inline stubs) to
> hide the differences.

The two are so different I think that keeping it seperate is actually the
right idea personally. It will be up to the nommu people to chase the "real
computer" mmu code but I don't think that is a problem.

Some of the other areas you really do want to just hide the differences
nicely - eg in proc

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