On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:49:00PM -0400, Adam Litke wrote: > There are currently two global Kconfig options that enable/disable the > hugetlb code: CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE and CONFIG_HUGETLBFS. This may have > made sense before hugetlbfs became ubiquitous but now the pair of > options are redundant. Merging these two options into one will simplify > the code slightly and will, more importantly, avoid confusion and > questions like: Which hugetlbfs CONFIG option should my code depend on? > > CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is aliased to the value of CONFIG_HUGETLBFS, so one > option can be removed without any effect. The first patch merges the > two options into one option: CONFIG_HUGETLB. The second patch updates > the defconfigs to set the one new option appropriately. > > I have cross-compiled this on i386, x86_64, ia64, powerpc, sparc64 and > sh with the option enabled and disabled. This is completely mechanical > but, due to the large number of files affected (especially defconfigs), > could do well with a review from several sets of eyeballs. Thanks. MIPS doesn't do HUGETLB (at least not in-tree atm) so I'm not sure why linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx was cc'ed at all. So feel free to add my Couldnt-care-less: ack line ;-) Ralf
