Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:12:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
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       Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Kconfig entry for RAMFS (Was: Re: support of
 older compilers)
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On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> 
> Probably, but it looks like it does not display in menuconfig and it is 
> set by default. I understand that it is a good example, but it should be 
> disabled by default I think... Or at least it should show in menuconfig. 
> And I do not know why embedded environments want to use ramfs more 
> than tmpfs. Swap is not needed for tmpfs and even if device has no swap it 
> can be oomed because of ramfs too.

Ehh. tmpfs _is_ ramfs in the embedded world. Take a look into 
mm/tiny-shmem.c, notice how it just calls it tmpfs and uses ramfs.

> Will you accept this patch:

Nope. See above. You're breaking a dependency here.

So at the very least you'd need to make the Kconfig understand the 
dependency on ramfs.

Also, don't shout in help-files. Nobody likes shouting. 

		Linus
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