From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: hugh@veritas.com (Hugh Dickins),
andersee@debian.org (Erik Andersen),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List)
Subject: Re: [Patch] sysinfo compatibility
Date: 22 Aug 2001 08:40:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3elq41tsv.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15ZGRX-0008Qn-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15ZGRX-0008Qn-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Hi Alan,
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > There are callers who did add ram + swap
>> And that's a reason to break compatibility?
>
> We had to break compatibility anyway for 2.4
Only for machines with more than 4G swap or ram, not swap +
ram. My patch addresses only this case where we did not fix anything
(for the kernel space) but broke something. Please keep in mind that
2-4 GB machines where quite common also for 2.2.
Greetings
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-22 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-21 8:03 [Patch] sysinfo compatibility Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 10:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-08-21 13:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-21 17:30 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 18:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-22 6:40 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-08-21 17:30 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 17:46 ` Erik Andersen
2001-08-22 6:44 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-22 15:45 ` Erik Andersen
2001-08-22 16:04 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-08-21 18:40 ` Hugh Dickins
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