Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional

Miles Bader (miles@lsi.nec.co.jp)
14 May 2003 15:20:54 +0900

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
> > Not everyone needs futex support, so it should be optional. This is
> > needed for small platforms.
>
> Looks good. I think you want to disable it unconditionally for !CONFIG_MMU.

Are futexes unusable without an MMU (I don't know anything about the
implementation)?

Thanks,

-Miles

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