From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dev@uclinux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] NOMMU: Set BDI capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:05:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060830080518.155c9d59.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19020.1156927122@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:38:42 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Or you could use the approach I suggested, like wot everyone else does.
>
> Ummm... I don't recall ever coming across a construct like that in the
> kernel.
box:/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-rc5> grep -r '^#define.*suspend[ ]*NULL' . | wc -l
75
We do it to reduce (and to localise) ifdefs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-30 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-29 17:59 David Howells
2006-08-29 17:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] NOMMU: Check that access_process_vm() has a valid target David Howells
2006-08-29 18:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] NOMMU: Set BDI capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem Andrew Morton
2006-08-29 18:39 ` David Howells
2006-08-29 19:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-30 8:38 ` David Howells
2006-08-30 15:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-30 9:24 ` David Howells
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