On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:41:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > What's the point of this? > > Well, it's written in the changelog. No it's not. It says "Rather than play interesting games with vmas..", but: - it doesn't say why the new model is any better - and the source code *still* has to play all the same interestign games anyway due to s390 (and possibly others) that cannot play the *new* interesting games. So I repeat: what's the _point_. > > That's lots of new (ugly) code, and two totally different paths, that > > aren't even cleanly abstracted, so now there's two separate things that > > are just arbitrarily selected by an #ifdef. > > How should it be cleanly abstracted? I don't think it can, since you have to leave the old code anyway. Which just returns me to the original question: what's the actual improvement here? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
