From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:48:42 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/5] alsa-lib: fix noMMU build In-Reply-To: <87a9qc2uu2.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1362853290-15592-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1362853290-15592-3-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <87a9qc2uu2.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20130310114842.4cd6647e@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Peter Korsgaard, On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:15:33 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > Are you sending this upstream? What's the reason for the HAVE_FORK > check? Why not just always use vfork() instead? That should work fine on > mmu as well (and be a tiny bit faster). I could possibly send this upstream, yes. The reason to use HAVE_FORK is to not change the MMU code, which probably is going to make the patch easier to get merged upstream, and also because that's the way the Blackfin people handled the problem. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com