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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] compliation work around for sparsemem

To: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] compliation work around for sparsemem
From: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:38:34 +0900
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On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:11AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 06:28:08PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > sparsemem compilation work around.
> > 
> > NOTE:
> > To compile with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL=y,
> > CONFIG_NUMA=y and CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA=y are also needed.
> > To compile with CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL=y,
> > CONFIG_DISCONTIG_MEM=y, CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP=y and CONFIG_NUMA=y
> > are needed.
> > These requirements are from vanilla linux. It's not xen-related issue.
> 
> Has this been resolved in newer kernels?

Linux 2.6.21.1 does have the same issue at least.
No one thinks that spasemem/discontigmem without numa
is usefull, I suppose.
So it would be acceptable to prohibit such configration conbinations
in Kconfig. (Or is someone working on it?)
-- 
yamahata

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