any value to supporting swap version 0 and *really* old kernels?

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Mar 30 03:15:41 UTC 2006


On 3/29/06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 March 2006 9:16 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > personally, i'd just remove swap V0 support.  i really don't see it
> > having much value and, with every passing day, even *that* minimal
> > value decreases.
>
> I actually don't see it having any value, but Bernhard Fischer seems to
> disagree for some reason.  Maybe he actually knows of a user?

linux-2.2 is still quite common on some m68k machines ... if it can be
disabled via config menu and defaults to off, what harm is it doing ?
-mike



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