Re: swapoff() behaviour

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2001 - 19:54:56 EST


On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> In other words, during the last 4 years quite a few pieces of mm/swapfile.c
> had been a dead code. Looks like we either need to restore old behaviour
> or perform the amputation. Snippet above is not the only place of that
> kind.
>
> Linus, it's your call.

Well, considering that it's been four years, and we haven't had a single
complaint - and that it was found now only due to code walkthrough - I
strongly suggest we just kill the code that can't be reached and has no
meaning.

                Linus

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