Re: 2.1.121 breaks compilation, initmem_freed undefined
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 09:37:22 -0700 (PDT)
On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> "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).
>
> Someone needs to fix fs/super.c too (I think this case was a
> legitimate usage of the variable, but anyways...)
I already fixed that, it's in the pre-patches.
And no, it was never legitimate - there was _no_ case where the function
was ever called with init-memory free'd. So the check made even less
sense, and the fix was to just get rid of it.
Linus
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