Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261231AbUKEWJc (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:09:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261228AbUKEWJE (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:09:04 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:42719 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261225AbUKEWIw (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:08:52 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:08:22 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Grzegorz Kulewski cc: Chris Wedgwood , Andries Brouwer , Adam Heath , Christoph Hellwig , Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20041103233029.GA16982@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20041105014146.GA7397@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20041105195045.GA16766@taniwha.stupidest.org> 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: 753 Lines: 20 On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > > And using ramfs for anything else can easily lead to similar problems. So > I think we do not need ramfs. Am I wrong? [I understand that removing it > will not remove much code.] ramfs is very useful as a minimal filesystem for showing what the VFS interfaces are, and also (I believe) used in embedded environments, where it's simply the smallest possible thing, and swap isn't available anyway. You can just disable it if you don't want it.. Linus - 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/