Re: 2.1.121 breaks compilation, initmem_freed undefined

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 02:38:17 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On 12 Sep 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > It also breaks the boot logo of fbcon the way it is done right now.
> >
> > Try this patch.
>
> "initmem_freed" is gone, and is not coming back. Anything depending on it
> should just be fixed to instead test for something that makes sense (like
> whether it was a module or not).

Checking for a module is not an option here. This is kernel code that may be
called before or after the free_initmem() call. We just have to know what's the
case here...

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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