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Date:	Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:59:52 +0200
From:	Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@...ian.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	486798@...s.debian.org, josejx@...too.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] restore export of handle_mm_fault for Mac on Linux

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:51:31AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:45:02PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > > Has been rejected a few times.  An now that we actually have kvm
> > > for powerpc in tree MOL should just merge with that project and
> > > do the right things in tree instead of beeing a really hacky
> > > module subverting the VM.
> > 
> > We don't have KVM for the "classic" 32-bit PowerPC processors, only
> > for the 44x family.  And doing KVM for the classic 32-bit processors
> > would probably involve just as much hackery as MOL. :)
> 
> I don't think so.  Doing it properly in-tree will mean that it is
> 
>   a) properly reviewed
>   b) means we can do the major VM bits in the kernel without these
>      really stupid exports
> 
> Have you looked at MOL recently?  It's more than disgusting.
> 
> And in addition to these issue we do of course as policy not add
> random hooks in the kernel tree for out of tree stuff.  Especially
> for hacks like this that don't even have the intention to get merged.

This is not true anymore. See my other message to this thread. Joseph
Jezak is working on a mergeable module.

Gaudenz

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