Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:29:22 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support
Message-ID: <20080120072922.GA21047@one.firstfloor.org>
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> I think I do.  You appear to be arguing that small businesses, such as
> paint shops or garages, could re-install iBCS2 support. 

You seem to be under the illusion that iBCS2 support works currently
in mainline and that only this patch would break it. That's not 
the case.

It's a significant patchkit that was only available in 2.4 and is
now missing a lot of infrastructure and would probably be significant
non-trivial work to forward port. Now if someone does that work
they can as well readd the few hunks I'm removing here.

-Andi
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