Re: 2.6.1-rc1-tiny1 tree for small systems

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Sat Jan 10 2004 - 16:51:18 EST


On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:22:29PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 05:00:49PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > On the side of useless ugly. But interesting in what I had to touch
> > > the following patch is a first crude stab at removing block device
> > > support from the kernel.
> >
> > This looks good. If you can send me a version with
> > /BLOCK_DEVICE/BLOCK/, etc., I'll put it in.
>
> Ok. I have just had a chance to clean some things up. Attached
> is my latest and hopefully clean set up diffs against 2.6.1-rc1-tiny1
>
> I am bouncing this off of linux-kernel as well since I got such good
> feedback last time.
>
> - First the compile fixes, so I can compile test this code.

Ok, had this stuff in my last release.

> - Then the CONFIG_BLOCK patch.

Merged with some minor tweaks in 2.6.1-tiny1.

> - Then a new patch that was sort of in my tree to make BINFMT_SCRIPT
> configurable.

Merged.

> - And another new patch to use cond_syscall instead of explicit
> dummies when we don't have the AIO code compiled in.

I went back and cleaned up all my syscall changes to use the
cond_syscall approach, thanks for pointing it out.

--
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting
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