Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional

Miles Bader (miles@lsi.nec.co.jp)
15 May 2003 11:18:35 +0900

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> Btw, the fact that futexes don't work without CONFIG_MMU is a bug not in
> futexes, but it the MMU-less code. The no-mmu version of "follow_page" is
> just wrong and badly implemented, and there's nothing to say that futexes
> aren't useful without a MMU.

Ah, this is what I was hoping to hear...

-miles

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