On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'd say panic. There's no much point in limping along with an > incorrectly-working kernel, only to have some small number of apps fail > mysteriously later on.
Panic it is ... > > > Can we make this optional if CONFIG_EMBEDDED? You plan on converting > > > epoll > > > to use this facility, but with CONFIG_EPOLL=n, this is all dead code? > > > > Hmmm, the whole point is that all this stuff works with or without epoll. > > And epoll need no changes to support this. > > I'm suggesting that all known clients of anon_inode be made optional. > Hence anon_iode can become optional too. > > It's a desirable objective, at least. The default, really. Ok, I'll put them under Kconf. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
