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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: hugh@veritas.com (Hugh Dickins),
	andersee@debian.org (Erik Andersen),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List)
Subject: Re: [Patch] sysinfo compatibility
Date: 21 Aug 2001 19:30:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y9od1ftm.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15ZBvd-0007q8-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Hi Alan,

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>> before) to make that decision; but concluded it was helping callers
>> who might well go on to add ram+swap, and felt no overriding reason
>> to change that.  But you can certainly argue that's inappropriate
> 
> There are callers who did add ram + swap

And that's a reason to break compatibility?

Greetings
                Christoph


  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-21 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-21  8:03 [Patch] sysinfo compatibility Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 10:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-08-21 13:50   ` Alan Cox
2001-08-21 17:30     ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-08-21 18:40       ` Alan Cox
2001-08-22  6:40         ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 17:30   ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 17:46     ` Erik Andersen
2001-08-22  6:44       ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-22 15:45         ` Erik Andersen
2001-08-22 16:04           ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 18:40     ` Hugh Dickins

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