Re: Linux 2.5.40-ac1

[Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>]

Hi Rik,

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:20:03AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> 
>>>The two are so different I think that keeping it seperate is actually the
>>>right idea personally.
>>
>>Did you actually take a look?  Many files are basically the same and other
>>are just totally stubbed out in nommu.
> 
> 
> So how about having one mm/ directory with:
> 
> 1) the common stuff
> 2) the MMU stuff
> 3) the NOMMU stuff
> 
> ... and some magic in Makefile to select which .c files to
> compile ?
> 
> That should keep code duplication to a minimum.

Easy done. Would it bother anyone having a few files
named XYZ-nommu.c in there?

Although the sticking point may be the common files that
still contain a lot of ifdefs.

Regards
Greg



------------------------------------------------------------------------
Greg Ungerer  --  Chief Software Wizard        EMAIL:  gerg@snapgear.com
SnapGear Pty Ltd                               PHONE:    +61 7 3435 2888
825 Stanley St,                                  FAX:    +61 7 3891 3630
Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia              WEB:   www.SnapGear.com