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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:44:07 +1000
From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
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Hi Rik,

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:20:03AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> 
>>>The two are so different I think that keeping it seperate is actually the
>>>right idea personally.
>>
>>Did you actually take a look?  Many files are basically the same and other
>>are just totally stubbed out in nommu.
> 
> 
> So how about having one mm/ directory with:
> 
> 1) the common stuff
> 2) the MMU stuff
> 3) the NOMMU stuff
> 
> ... and some magic in Makefile to select which .c files to
> compile ?
> 
> That should keep code duplication to a minimum.

Easy done. Would it bother anyone having a few files
named XYZ-nommu.c in there?

Although the sticking point may be the common files that
still contain a lot of ifdefs.

Regards
Greg



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