From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [SPARSEMEM] confusing uses of SPARSEM_EXTREME (try #2)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:25:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <448D9577.3040903@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <448D1117.8010407@innova-card.com>
Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> Is it me or the use of CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME is really confusing in
> mm/sparce.c ? Shouldn't we use CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC instead like
> the following patch suggests ?
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] Remove confusing uses of SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
>
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME is used in sparce.c whereas
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC seems to be more appropriate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
In my mind the positive option is selecting for code supporting EXTREME
so it seems to make sense to use that option. Perhaps the confusion
comes from a lack of comments there to say that the else case is STATIC.
-apw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-12 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-12 7:00 [SPARSEMEM] confusing uses of SPARSEM_EXTREME (try #2) Franck Bui-Huu
2006-06-12 16:10 ` Dave Hansen
2006-06-13 8:51 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-06-12 16:25 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2006-06-12 17:21 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-06-12 17:32 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-06-13 8:34 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-06-13 10:05 ` Andy Whitcroft
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