From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7FGL0a0011184 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:21:00 -0400 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.0) with ESMTP id m7FGL0sr175998 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:21:00 -0600 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m7FGKxvY023048 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:20:59 -0600 Subject: Re: sparsemem support for mips with highmem From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: <48A5AADE.1050808@sciatl.com> References: <48A4AC39.7020707@sciatl.com> <1218753308.23641.56.camel@nimitz> <48A4C542.5000308@sciatl.com> <20080815080331.GA6689@alpha.franken.de> <1218815299.23641.80.camel@nimitz> <48A5AADE.1050808@sciatl.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:20:57 -0700 Message-Id: <1218817257.23641.90.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: C Michael Sundius Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, jfraser@broadcom.com, Andy Whitcroft List-ID: On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 09:12 -0700, C Michael Sundius wrote: > One thing that I had thought about and also came up when my peers here > reviewed my changes was that we probably could put those bit numbers > (at the very least the segment size) in the .config file. > > we decided that the power that be might have had a reason for that and > we left it not wanting to meddle with the other arch's. > > Dave, do you have a comment about that? Doing it with Kconfig would be fine with me. It would be an excellent place to add that help text. Although, I'm not sure that it should be something that is interactive. Probably just strictly take the place of the #defines we already have. -- Dave -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org