Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional

From: Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 20:42:54 EST


On Wed, 14 May 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> +menu "Size reduced kernel"
> +
> +config FUTEX
> + bool "Futex support"
> + default y
> + ---help---
> + Say Y if you want support for Fast Userspace Mutexes (Futexes).
> + WARNING: disabling futex support will probably cause glibc to fail.

This should also break kernels with MMUs ( see mm_release ).

- Davide

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