Re: 2.1.93 won't boot

James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 21:07:35 -0400 (EDT)


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On 8 Apr 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980407225708.645A-400000@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org>,
> James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> wrote:
> >
> >Hmm... On two machines, I have gotten 2.1.93 to behave five different
> >ways.
>
> This value _has_ to be much larger than the small values you try to feed
> it. In particular, it does not make sense to make it smaller than 1024
> (which is the default value)
>
> As it also doesn't make sense to make it larger than 1024 unless you
> have special needs, I have now removed the config option. The people
> who need the config option have machines that can recompile the kernel
> in 2 minutes, they can do that by hand.
>
> Linus

Instead of doing that, it might be nicer to simply make the documentation
string a bit more informative. To that end is the first part of the
attached patch, to Documentation/Configure.help. While I was at it, I
also put in a couple of simple patches to allow compilation without proc
fs enabled (render_sigset_t was defined in fs/proc/array.c but referenced
in kernel/sched.c -- effected files are fs/proc/array.c,
include/linux/sched.h, and kernel/sched.c), and to allow compilation with
CONFIG_NET but without CONFIG_INET (net/ksyms.c had many undefined
symbols -- now it is a bit overagressive in it's includes). The last
change neccessated adding another include to include/net/route.h. If you
want a (undertested, as the post to linux-kernel didn't seem to get
through) CONFIG_SMP patch to 2.1.93, mail me back and I'll do a quick
little update to it. (Re-patch it to 2.1.93 from 2.1.92, check for new
outcropings of __SMP__ and re-diff to get the new line numbers to send
you somthing that will go in cleanly.)

BTW -- Yes, I do give my files pathalogical names somtimes.

-=- James Mastros

-- 
Where do you want to go today?
We might support that somtime next year.
	-=- Microsoft
(But I dought it.)
	-=- Me

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