Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm4 (only) and vmware

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Christopher Li wrote:
> Thanks,  I post a totally untested patch follows, but the testing of
> which kernel has this feature is not completed yet.
> Is there a way to reliably detect which kernel has this change?
> Look at all the ifdef I need to make to keep the module working
> with other kernels.  :-(
> Best Regards,
> Chris

akpm wants us not to barf when ->nopage() methods not updated to the
new signature are used, so we're either setting the initial value of
ret in do_no_page() to something that won't get barfed on by
do_page_fault() or teaching all the fault handlers to ignore invalid
return values. As far as fixing the warning, the #ifdef is still needed.

I'm going to ruminate on non-fatal methods of complaining loudly.


-- wli