From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263045AbUEKGiB (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 02:38:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262434AbUEKGgP (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 02:36:15 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:20997 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262106AbUEKGXd (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 02:23:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 07:23:29 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Wim Coekaerts Cc: Andrew Morton , cw@f00f.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm1 Message-ID: <20040511072329.D12187@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Wim Coekaerts , Andrew Morton , cw@f00f.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040510150203.3257ccac.akpm@osdl.org> <20040510231146.GA5168@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040510162818.376b4a55.akpm@osdl.org> <20040510233342.GA5614@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040510165132.5107472e.akpm@osdl.org> <20040510235312.GA9348@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040510171413.6c1699b8.akpm@osdl.org> <20040511002426.GD1105@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20040510181008.1906ea8a.akpm@osdl.org> <20040511015118.GA4589@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040511015118.GA4589@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>; from wim.coekaerts@oracle.com on Mon, May 10, 2004 at 06:51:18PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 06:51:18PM -0700, Wim Coekaerts wrote: > > err, so why did I just merge the hugetlb_shm_group patch? > > because of what you mentioned. it takes a long time before that goes > out, it's not even tested, and it doesn't apply to those 1000's of > existing systems taht will break on upgrade. exactly what you said, it > makes it possible to get to a different way smoothly in time. my > comments were not "we can use it today". So it's a hack for legacy oracle versions. nice. and for that we introduce completely alien concepts like magic groups into the kernel..