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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: gerg <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: linux-2.5.30uc0 MMU-less patches
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:01:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020802180132.P25761@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D4AAB32.8050608@snapgear.com>; from gerg@snapgear.com on Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 01:54:26AM +1000

On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 01:54:26AM +1000, gerg wrote:

 > > I didn't check the code in detail, but
 > > is there really that little that can be shared between
 > > the regular mm/ ?
 > No, there is actually a lot in common. Probably something
 > like 70%. This is really a question of organization.

That's what I guessed on just a cursory glance at the patch.

 > I would much prefer to see the non-mmu support in with mm.
 > But it would mean a few #ifdef's in there to allow for
 > the differences.

Versus massive code duplication, I think the ifdef's would
be a better approach, especially if you can hide them away
in headers.

        Dave

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-02 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-02  6:34 [PATCH]: linux-2.5.30uc0 MMU-less patches Greg Ungerer
2002-08-02 12:16 ` Dave Jones
2002-08-02 15:29   ` gerg
2002-08-02 15:34     ` Dave Jones
2002-08-02 15:54       ` gerg
2002-08-02 16:01         ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-08-02 14:39 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-02 16:01   ` gerg
2002-08-05 10:02     ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-05 15:36       ` gerg

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