From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 14:24:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 14:24:18 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:55313 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 14:24:17 -0400 Subject: Re: Still no ramfs usage limits in 2.5.9 or 2.4.19-pre8 To: dale@farnsworth.org (Dale Farnsworth) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:11:21 +0100 (BST) Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020516164926.GA16670@farnsworth.org> from "Dale Farnsworth" at May 16, 2002 09:49:26 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > David Gibson produced a patch about 18 months ago that added usage limits > to ramfs. > > Through 2.4.10, the AC kernel series carried this patch. > > Linus' kernel from 2.4.11 onward adopted only one line from the > patch, the following attribution comment: > "Usage limits added by David Gibson, Linuxcare Australia." > > The usage limit code is missing, however. Linus certainly never added it, or the address space hooks it needed. It should have been added though definitely