From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161215AbWGOHIh (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:08:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161248AbWGOHIh (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:08:37 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:34701 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161215AbWGOHIh (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:08:37 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.18 Headers - Long From: David Woodhouse To: David Miller Cc: arjan@infradead.org, maillist@jg555.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org In-Reply-To: <20060714.131957.57444250.davem@davemloft.net> References: <44B7F062.8040102@jg555.com> <1152905987.3159.46.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1152908202.3191.98.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20060714.131957.57444250.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:08:14 +0100 Message-Id: <1152947294.3191.103.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.6.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 13:19 -0700, David Miller wrote: > I totally agree. When I saw that some dists make asm/page.h define > PAGE_SIZE to "getpagesize()" for userspace, I nearly crapped myself. > > That is insane, and encourages the problem to persist instead of > encouraging the right fix. Until a week or two ago, we had no mechanism with which to implement the 'right fix'. Any distribution taking the initiative and reducing visibility of stuff like that would be inundated with complaints that "it works OK on other distributions". We can be stricter now that we have some expectation of _consistency_ across distributions. -- dwmw2