Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Allow users to override feature detection

2008-08-31 Thread David Gibson
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:57:10AM -0500, Adam Litke wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 15:43 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:39:29PM +, Adam Litke wrote: > > > In some cases (such as a distro kernel with backported features) > > > libhugetlbfs > > > will be wrong about t

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Allow users to override feature detection

2008-08-29 Thread Adam Litke
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 15:43 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:39:29PM +, Adam Litke wrote: > > In some cases (such as a distro kernel with backported features) > > libhugetlbfs > > will be wrong about the presence of a feature. In these rare cases it will > > be > > use

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Allow users to override feature detection

2008-08-28 Thread David Gibson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:39:29PM +, Adam Litke wrote: > In some cases (such as a distro kernel with backported features) libhugetlbfs > will be wrong about the presence of a feature. In these rare cases it will be > useful to tell the library whether or not the feature is present in the > r

[Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Allow users to override feature detection

2008-08-27 Thread Adam Litke
In some cases (such as a distro kernel with backported features) libhugetlbfs will be wrong about the presence of a feature. In these rare cases it will be useful to tell the library whether or not the feature is present in the running kernel. Add a string field to 'struct feature' which contains