Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:51:31 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       486798@bugs.debian.org, josejx@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] restore export of handle_mm_fault for Mac on Linux
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:45:02PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Has been rejected a few times.  An now that we actually have kvm
> > for powerpc in tree MOL should just merge with that project and
> > do the right things in tree instead of beeing a really hacky
> > module subverting the VM.
> 
> We don't have KVM for the "classic" 32-bit PowerPC processors, only
> for the 44x family.  And doing KVM for the classic 32-bit processors
> would probably involve just as much hackery as MOL. :)

I don't think so.  Doing it properly in-tree will mean that it is

  a) properly reviewed
  b) means we can do the major VM bits in the kernel without these
     really stupid exports

Have you looked at MOL recently?  It's more than disgusting.

And in addition to these issue we do of course as policy not add
random hooks in the kernel tree for out of tree stuff.  Especially
for hacks like this that don't even have the intention to get merged.
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