linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Restore MSGPOOL original value

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Date:	Wed, 28 May 2008 15:48:23 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Nadia.Derbey@...l.net
Cc:	mtk.manpages@...glemail.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nadia.Derbey@...l.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore MSGPOOL original value

On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:17:17 +0200
Nadia.Derbey@...l.net wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] Restore MSGPOOL original value

Please prefer to include the subsystem identifier in the patch title.  ie:

	[patch] ipc: restore MSGPOOL original value

It saves me from having to do it ;)

> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:17:17 +0200
> User-Agent: quilt/0.45-1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When posting:
> [PATCH 1/8] Scaling msgmni to the amount of lowmem
> (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/637849/), I have changed the
> MSGPOOL value to make it fit what is said in the man pages (i.e. a size in
> bytes).
> 
> But Michael Kerrisk rightly complained that this change could affect the ABI.
> So I'm posting this patch to make MSGPOOL expressed back in Kbytes.
> Michael, on his side, has fixed the man page.
> 
> This patch applies to 2.6.26-rc2-mm1.

But it is needed in 2.6.26, yes?


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