Re: Still no ramfs usage limits in 2.5.9 or 2.4.19-pre8

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 16 May 2002 19:11:21 +0100 (BST)


> David Gibson produced a patch about 18 months ago that added usage limits
> to ramfs. <http://ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dwg-ramfs.patch>
>
> Through 2.4.10, the AC kernel series carried this patch.
>
> Linus' kernel from 2.4.11 onward adopted only one line from the
> patch, the following attribution comment:
> "Usage limits added by David Gibson, Linuxcare Australia."
>
> The usage limit code is missing, however.

Linus certainly never added it, or the address space hooks it needed. It
should have been added though definitely
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