From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEABE900194 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:13:01 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <07301036-485e-4b0e-88db-7937857d1977@default> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:12:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Magenheimer Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix cleancache config Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Rolf Eike Beer Cc: linux-mm > It doesn't make sense to have a default setting different to that what we > suggest the user to select. Even when configured on at compile time, cleancache functionality is inert unless the hooks are registered by a "backend" (e.g. zcache or Xen or other future code). If configured on, a backend module can dynamically enable cleancache functionality; the cost is extremely small, so all postings of cleancache had "default y". Just before Linus merged cleancache, he insisted that the default be changed to "n". I didn't argue, just changed it. However, I think in the future most distros will prefer to have it set so the functionality can be enabled at runtime, thus the help comment is inconsistent with the default. > Also fixes a typo. Don't know how I missed that one :-} Typo fix: Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer Dan -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org