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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: Enable HUGETLBFS only if
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:59:34 +0530 Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> wrote:

> Enable HUGETLBFS only when platform subscrbes via ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS.
> Hence select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS on existing x86 and sparc for their
> continuing HUGETLBFS support.

Looks nice.

> While here also just drop existing 'BROKEN' dependency.

Why?

What is BROKEN for, anyway?  I don't recall having dealt with it
before.  It predates kernel git and we forgot to document it.