Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263700AbTEOCJp (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 22:09:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263704AbTEOCJp (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 22:09:45 -0400 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.202]:60883 "EHLO TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263700AbTEOCJo (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 22:09:44 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christopher Hoover , "'Ulrich Drepper'" , "'Dave Jones'" , Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional References: Reply-To: Miles Bader System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop From: Miles Bader Date: 15 May 2003 11:18:35 +0900 In-Reply-To: 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: 800 Lines: 13 Linus Torvalds writes: > Btw, the fact that futexes don't work without CONFIG_MMU is a bug not in > futexes, but it the MMU-less code. The no-mmu version of "follow_page" is > just wrong and badly implemented, and there's nothing to say that futexes > aren't useful without a MMU. Ah, this is what I was hoping to hear... -miles -- `Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_) - 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/