Re: new kmod patch (against 2.1.115)

Greg Zornetzer (gaz@andrew.cmu.edu)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:59:06 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Any patch with this will NOT be accepted. I've told multiple people about
> it, and any architecture that needs this is BROKEN. Not just for kmod, but
> for everything else.
>
> The architecture-specific macros for slushing and initializing a new
> pgtable context had better flush the TLB. If they don't, they are broken.
> As far as I know, the m68k port is broken in this regard, and instead of
> the m68k people letting broken patches like this float around they should
> just fix their activate_context() macros or whatever.
>
> Please don't send this patch to me again. Sending it multiple times just
> makes me irritated, and won't make it any more likely to get included.

My apologies. I don't remember ever seeing you comment about that. I'll
remove it from my patch. Do you have a problem with the signalling stuff?
I'm more concerned about that.

>
> Linus
>
>

Greg Zornetzer - gaz+@andrew.cmu.edu
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