Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-pre4|BK] remove /proc/meminfo:MemShared

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 08:00:08 EST

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:42:34PM +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> Hi Marcelo,

Hi Marc,

> it seems to have been displaying zero for the past several years.
>
> Same as in 2.5, by AKPM.
>...

I don't think it's good to do this change in a stable kernel series. The
entry doesn't do any harm and there might be programs that parse
/proc/meminfo and expect MemShared to be present.

> ciao, Marc

cu
Adrian 

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