From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:31:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:31:40 -0400 Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.53]:9106 "EHLO smtpde02.sap-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:31:29 -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: 21 Aug 2001 19:30:13 +0200 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: >> before) to make that decision; but concluded it was helping callers >> who might well go on to add ram+swap, and felt no overriding reason >> to change that. But you can certainly argue that's inappropriate > > There are callers who did add ram + swap And that's a reason to break compatibility? Greetings Christoph