On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > There are callers who did add ram + swap
>> And that's a reason to break compatibility?
>
> We had to break compatibility anyway for 2.4
Only for machines with more than 4G swap or ram, not swap +
ram. My patch addresses only this case where we did not fix anything
(for the kernel space) but broke something. Please keep in mind that
2-4 GB machines where quite common also for 2.2.
Greetings
Christoph
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