Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268438AbUILE6m (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:58:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268445AbUILE6l (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:58:41 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:7811 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268438AbUILE6W (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:58:22 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:58:10 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Albert Cahalan Cc: Roger Luethi , Andrew Morton OSDL , linux-kernel mailing list , Paul Jackson Subject: Re: [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information Message-ID: <20040912045810.GB2660@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Albert Cahalan , Roger Luethi , Andrew Morton OSDL , linux-kernel mailing list , Paul Jackson References: <20040908184028.GA10840@k3.hellgate.ch> <20040908184130.GA12691@k3.hellgate.ch> <20040909003529.GI3106@holomorphy.com> <20040909184300.GA28278@k3.hellgate.ch> <20040909184933.GG3106@holomorphy.com> <20040909191142.GA30151@k3.hellgate.ch> <1094941556.1173.12.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094941556.1173.12.camel@cube> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1184 Lines: 26 On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:11, Roger Luethi wrote: >> I have a few minor changes coming up as well. >> One nitpick: As vmexe and vmlib are always 0 for !CONFIG_MMU, we should >> ifdef them out of the list of offered fields for that configuration (and >> maybe in nproc_ps_field as well). On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:25:56PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > No. First of all, I think they can be offered. Until proven > otherwise, I'll assume that the !CONFIG_MMU case is buggy. > Second of all, removal will make the !CONFIG_MMU systems > less compatible with the rest of the world. This will > mean that fewer apps can run on !CONFIG_MMU boxes. It's > same problem as "All the world's a VAX". It's better that > the apps work; an author working on a Pentium 4 Xeon is > likely to write code that relies on the fields and might > not really understand what "no MMU" is all about. Would the nommu bits I wrote be satisfactory for you? -- wli - 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/