From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S969779AbXEICGU (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 22:06:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967446AbXEICGK (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 22:06:10 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54846 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966416AbXEICGJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 22:06:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 19:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070508.190610.08324075.davem@davemloft.net> To: clameter@sgi.com Cc: mpm@selenic.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: + fix-spellings-of-slab-allocator-section-in-init-kconfig.patch added to -mm tree From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20070508.185539.95059076.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 18:57:04 -0700 (PDT) > On Tue, 8 May 2007, David Miller wrote: > > > I'm just reading over the code to figure out what to type to you, you > > could read the code too it's not very complicated :-) > > I have read it numerous times and my conclusion is that it uses the > descriptors for that purpose. But Matt claims they are not necessary. So I > am just trying to figure out how one can get to that conclusion. He is saying the metadata is not necessary for allocated objects. At least that's my take.