Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:36:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
cc: Erik Jacobson <erikj@subway.americas.sgi.com>,
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Subject: Re: 2.6 /proc/interrupts fails on systems with many CPUs
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 
> OK, I was actually trying to avoid the use of vmalloc, instead of the 
> unconditional conversion to vmalloc, which is what the original patch did ;-)

Yes, I realize that, but it's the old case of

  "I'm totally faithful to my husband - I never sleep with other men when 
   he is around"

joke.

Basically, if it's wrong to use, it's wrong to use even occasionally. In 
fact, having two different code-paths just makes the code worse.

Yes, I realize that sometimes you have to do it that way, and it might be 
the simplest way to fix something. In this case, though, the cost and 
fragility of a generic interface is not worth it, since the problem isn't 
actually in the generic code at all..

		Linus

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