Re: swapoff() behaviour

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2001 - 20:01:33 EST


On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> 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.

OK, consider it done. I'll send patch tonight.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Sep 23 2001 - 21:00:46 EST