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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
To: J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_* In Comments Considered Harmful
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:15:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031001201552.GR729@actcom.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031001151011.GL31698@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:10:11PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:

> > > --- a/include/linux/mm.h	28 Sep 2003 04:06:20 -0000	1.5
> > > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h	1 Oct 2003 13:15:53 -0000
> > > @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ struct page {
> > >  #if defined(WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL)
> > >  	void *virtual;			/* Kernel virtual address (NULL if
> > >  					   not kmapped, ie. highmem) */
> > > -#endif /* CONFIG_HIGMEM || WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL */
> > > +#endif /* CONFIG_HIGHMEM || WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL */
> > >  };
> > 
> > This is broken, the CONFIG_HIG(H)MEM shouldn't be there at all. Look
> > at the #if defined(...) line. 

[snipped] 

Looks like this patch made it past Linus's famous patch barriers and
into the bk tree after all. J?rn, I trust you'll send a patch to
revert it? (Linus, if you want to fix it by hand, just deleted the
CONFIG_HIGHMEM bit completely from the #endif line).
-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-01 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-01 13:26 [PATCH] CONFIG_* In Comments Considered Harmful Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-01 14:19 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-01 14:29   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-01 14:42     ` Jörn Engel
2003-10-01 14:49       ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-01 14:41   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-10-01 14:39 ` Jörn Engel
     [not found]   ` <20031001145206.GH29313@actcom.co.il>
2003-10-01 15:10     ` Jörn Engel
2003-10-01 20:15       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2003-10-01 20:27         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-01 14:58 ` Sam Ravnborg

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