Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25

Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-24T06:41:35Z

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:07:13AM +0100, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> You will never get distros to follow that. A 'featured-kernel-for-distro'...
> Just take RH and SuSE (correct me if I'm wrong...)
> RH ships -ac. SuSE ships -aa. At least both (-ac and -aa) have O(1) scheduler
> now. -ac ships rmap, -aa ships -aa (;)). That means O(1) goes in your kernel,
> but how about the VM subsystem ?

Mainline needs VM updates and as the -aa VM is the actual fixes for the
2.4.10+ VM it needs to be merged (at least partially). It's sad that this
happened after akpm and other spent lots of time on splitting up and
documenting it.