On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:26:59PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:43:48 CDT, Adam Litke said: > >> The main reason I am advocating a set of pagetable_operations is to > >> enable the development of a new hugetlb interface. > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:51:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do you have an exit strategy for the *old* interface? > > Hello. > > My exit strategy was to make hugetlbfs an alias for ramfs when ramfs > acquired the necessary functionality until expand-on-mmap() was merged. > That would've allowed rm -rf fs/hugetlbfs/ outright. A compatibility > wrapper for expand-on-mmap() around ramfs once ramfs acquires the > necessary functionality is now the exit strategy.
Can you describe what ramfs needs here in a bit more detail? If it's non-trivial, I'd rather see any new functionality go into shmfs/tmpfs, as ramfs has done a good job at staying a minimal fs thus far. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
