fix swapping on 8xx?
Tom Rini
trini at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 9 08:02:04 EST 2005
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:52:59PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <20051108175658.GO3839 at smtp.west.cox.net> you wrote:
> >
> > > Well, at least it sounds ugly together, but it is also at least conceiveable.
> > > There seem to be people who use PCMCIA for an IDE interface, so swapping may
> > > become desireable in some cases.
> >
> > I think Dan might be in the camp that says a properly designed embedded
> > system won't need to swap. And when I hear about how people do try and
> > swap on systems like this, I really start agreeing. Maybe we could make
> > 8xx just select SWAP=n? :)
>
> No! David is right. There are systems out in the field running with
> IDE harddisks attached (either through custom hardware interfaces or
> through standard PCMCIA adapters), and some of these actually need
> and use swap space.
>
> Please do not remove stuff that is needed and used to work (in 2.4).
Note the bug in question exists in 2.4, and I think really even 2.2.
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Tom Rini
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