Re: [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h

From: Badari Pulavarty
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 12:37:40 EST


On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 09:28 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > Other numbers look right, dont they?
>
> Suggestion: for each macro name, do
>
> grep "macroname" patch
>
> and if you see anything that looks even half-way suspicious, check it.
>
> Here's a pipeline from hell which shows that you broke at least
> MADV_REMOVE (which has values 5-9 depending on architecture).

Yes. I did that earlier and checked everything.

MADV_REMOVE is a known change. Since it added very recently,
I guess is okay to fix it for real. But if we are going to
change it, I am hoping to see it very soon in mainline.
(Before distros fork-off).

Thanks,
Badari

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