From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755508AbYE1Wtf (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 18:49:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753698AbYE1Wt1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 18:49:27 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40573 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753467AbYE1Wt0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 18:49:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:48:23 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Nadia.Derbey@bull.net Cc: mtk.manpages@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nadia.Derbey@bull.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore MSGPOOL original value Message-Id: <20080528154823.e7c700bb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080526091741.735792000@bull.net> References: <20080526091716.087875000@bull.net> <20080526091741.735792000@bull.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:17:17 +0200 Nadia.Derbey@bull.net wrote: > Subject: [PATCH] Restore MSGPOOL original value Please prefer to include the subsystem identifier in the patch title. ie: [patch] ipc: restore MSGPOOL original value It saves me from having to do it ;) > Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:17:17 +0200 > User-Agent: quilt/0.45-1 > > Hi, > > When posting: > [PATCH 1/8] Scaling msgmni to the amount of lowmem > (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/637849/), I have changed the > MSGPOOL value to make it fit what is said in the man pages (i.e. a size in > bytes). > > But Michael Kerrisk rightly complained that this change could affect the ABI. > So I'm posting this patch to make MSGPOOL expressed back in Kbytes. > Michael, on his side, has fixed the man page. > > This patch applies to 2.6.26-rc2-mm1. But it is needed in 2.6.26, yes?