Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262072AbTENGJH (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 02:09:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262098AbTENGJH (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 02:09:07 -0400 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.202]:20399 "EHLO TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262072AbTENGI7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 02:08:59 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Christopher Hoover , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional References: <20030513213157.A1063@heavens.murgatroid.com> <20030514071446.A2647@infradead.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop From: Miles Bader Date: 14 May 2003 15:20:54 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20030514071446.A2647@infradead.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 15 Christoph Hellwig writes: > > Not everyone needs futex support, so it should be optional. This is > > needed for small platforms. > > Looks good. I think you want to disable it unconditionally for !CONFIG_MMU. Are futexes unusable without an MMU (I don't know anything about the implementation)? Thanks, -Miles -- "I distrust a research person who is always obviously busy on a task." --Robert Frosch, VP, GM Research - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/