From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 02:42:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 02:42:05 -0400 Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.53]:1210 "EHLO smtpde02.sap-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 02:41:52 -0400 From: Christoph Rohland To: Alan Cox 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 In-Reply-To: Organisation: SAP LinuxLab Date: 22 Aug 2001 08:40:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SAP: out X-SAP: out X-SAP: out X-SAP: out Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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