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To: "Rik van Riel" <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:52:33 +0100
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I beg to differ.

I already use the syscalls.

The patch doesnt change Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt

How one is supposed to use hugetlbfs ? That's not documented.

Before dropping support for syscalls, please change the Documentation.

Thanks

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rik van Riel" <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: "Benjamin LaHaise" <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@digeo.com>; <linux-mm@kvack.org>;
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:42 AM
Subject: Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls


> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>
> > Since the functionality of the hugetlb syscalls is now available via
> > hugetlbfs with better control over permissions, could you apply the
> > following patch that gets rid of a lot of duplicate and unnescessary
> > code by removing the two hugetlb syscalls?
>
> #include <massive_applause.h>
>
> Yes, lets get rid of this ugliness before somebody actually
> finds a way to use these syscalls...
>
> regards,
>
> Rik
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