On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:52:59PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > In message <20051108175658.GO3839 at smtp.west.cox.net> you wrote: > > > > > Well, at least it sounds ugly together, but it is also at least > > > conceiveable. > > > There seem to be people who use PCMCIA for an IDE interface, so swapping > > > may > > > become desireable in some cases. > > > > I think Dan might be in the camp that says a properly designed embedded > > system won't need to swap. And when I hear about how people do try and > > swap on systems like this, I really start agreeing. Maybe we could make > > 8xx just select SWAP=n? :) > > No! David is right. There are systems out in the field running with > IDE harddisks attached (either through custom hardware interfaces or > through standard PCMCIA adapters), and some of these actually need > and use swap space. > > Please do not remove stuff that is needed and used to work (in 2.4).
Note the bug in question exists in 2.4, and I think really even 2.2. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
