[PATCH] Remove cruft from mkswap man page

[PATCH] Remove cruft from mkswap man page

[Phillip Susi]

I don't think there's any reason to continue to mention behavior
of kernels older than 10 years.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
---
 disk-utils/mkswap.8 | 10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/disk-utils/mkswap.8 b/disk-utils/mkswap.8
index 68cc40b..e08aa03 100644
--- a/disk-utils/mkswap.8
+++ b/disk-utils/mkswap.8
@@ -103,21 +103,13 @@ Display version information and exit.
 .SH NOTES
 The maximum useful size of a swap area depends on the architecture and
 the kernel version.
-It is roughly 2GiB on i386, PPC, m68k and ARM, 1GiB on sparc, 512MiB on mips,
-128GiB on alpha, and 3TiB on sparc64.  For kernels after 2.3.3 (May 1999) there is no
-such limitation.
 
 The maximum number of the pages that is possible to address by swap area header
 is 4294967295 (UINT_MAX). The remaining space on the swap device is ignored.
 
-Note that before version 2.1.117 the kernel allocated one byte for each page,
-while it now allocates two bytes, so that taking into use a swap area of 2 GiB
-might require 2 MiB of kernel memory.
-
-Presently, Linux allows 32 swap areas (this was 8 before Linux 2.4.10 (Sep 2001)).
+Presently, Linux allows 32 swap areas.
 The areas in use can be seen in the file
 .I /proc/swaps
-(since 2.1.25 (Sep 1997)).
 
 .B mkswap
 refuses areas smaller than 10 pages.
-- 
1.8.3.2

Re: [PATCH] Remove cruft from mkswap man page

[Karel Zak]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I don't think there's any reason to continue to mention behavior
> of kernels older than 10 years.

 ..but...but.. it's our history, you're sooo pedantic. 
 
 Applied, thanks :-)

    Karel

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