Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:14:44 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] move SWAP option in menu |
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:17:48 +0100 Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es> wrote:
| On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:36:13PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | > Hi, | > | > Please apply this patch (option B of 2 choices) from | > Tomas Szepe to move the SWAP option into the General Setup | > menu. | > | > Patch is to 2.5.64. | > [snip] | | Why restrict it to Intel only? I don't know if it works properly on | other architectures, but at least it would give people the opportunity | to test it on embedded PPC/Arm/MIPS/CRIS/whatever. | | >From a quick grep over a recent BK tree, the only files who have | sections conditional on CONFIG_SWAP are: | | include/linux/page-flags.h | include/linux/swap.h | mm/vmscan.c | mm/Makefile | | no architecture specific code at all. From a quick look, the | conditionals are rather simple (most of them are replacements of | actual functions by dummies) and should work on all architectures. | Please let people test it on non-X86, after all it's still a | development kernel. Any breakage is unlikely to be serious and | embedded people are going to be the most interested since it | saves some space.
OK, please send a patch.
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