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

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Message-ID: <483E7EE0.4050703@bull.net>
Date:	Thu, 29 May 2008 12:01:04 +0200
From:	Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@...l.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	mtk.manpages@...glemail.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore MSGPOOL original value

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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 ;)

Sorry for that.

> 
> 
>>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?
> 

Yes.

Regards,
Nadia
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