From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:16:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:16:00 -0500 Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.85]:22715 "EHLO mailout11.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:15:59 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Marc-Christian Petersen Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel To: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-pre4|BK] remove /proc/meminfo:MemShared Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:03:25 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti References: <200302191333.43875.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <20030219130008.GD531@fs.tum.de> In-Reply-To: <20030219130008.GD531@fs.tum.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200302191402.09004.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 19 February 2003 14:00, Adrian Bunk wrote: Hi Adrian, > I don't think it's good to do this change in a stable kernel series. The > entry doesn't do any harm and there might be programs that parse > /proc/meminfo and expect MemShared to be present. well, I am not aware of any program that needs MemShared. This is also in my WOLK tree for a long time (even longer than it was in 2.5) and no one out there complained about it yet :) ciao, Marc