On Wednesday 28 November 2007 02:40:16 Erez Zadok wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Hewlett writes: > > Erez > > > > What would solve this is if the CONFIG variables in the kernel are always > > defined but to either 0 (disabled) or to 1 (enabled) and alas that is not > > going to happen. > > Yes: we have three mutually-exclusive cases to distinguish: > > 1. RT patches not applied > 2. RT patches applied and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y > 2. RT patches applied and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=n > > You can't distinguish among three cases with only one yes/no bit. You need > two bits at least. > > The easiest solution, honestly, is if the RT maintainers rename that > .__nrpages field back to .nrpages -- then a simple ifdef will work for me. > Do you think renaming the field back is something they'd agree to?
Erez Don't know - I'm just trying out the RT kernel and am not a member of the RT dev group. The kernel sources are from the Gentoo pro-audio overlay but the original work is done by Ingo Molnar at RedHat http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/ Paul > > BTW, I understand why they did renamed it: to catch every person who uses > that field w/o the wrapper. Makes sense while developing code, as I use > that trick too. But after that, it's ok to rename the field back to its > original name. > > If there's an RT ML you can point me to, I'll be happy to post this request > to them. > > Thanks, > Erez. -- Paul Hewlett Technical Director Global Call Center Solutions Ltd, 2nd Floor, Milnerton Mall Cnr Loxton & Koeberg Roads, 7435 Milnerton www.gccs.co.za Tel: +27 86 111 3433 Fax: +27 86 111 3520 Cel: +27 76 072 7906 VOIP: 087 750 7474 _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list: http://unionfs.filesystems.org/ unionfs@mail.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
