Hi, Christoph Hellwig: > > Why not? > > Because we don't want gazillions of special cases in common code. We > already added support for allocating the thread_info and task_struct > as a single object because ia64 needed it, there's no reason to stack > another hack ontop for m68k. OK -- I'll investigate changing that. It'll be a few days until I can get to it however :-/ so if anybody beats me to it, fine. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de