linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove PAGE_SIZE from headers

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Date:	Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:01:11 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove PAGE_SIZE from headers_install

On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 23:34 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > I would think it would be better to not define it at all.  Several
> > architectures already don't have PAGE_SIZE visible to userspace in 
> > any way.
> 
> i386 has it, so everyone uses it.

PowerPC lacks it, so nothing we ship in Fedora relies upon it.

Just kill it. Probably by leaving <asm/page.h> empty for now; we can
remove it completely later.

-- 
dwmw2

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