Re: fix swapping on 8xx?

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:52:59PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

In message [ref] you wrote:

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Well, at least it sounds ugly together, but it is also at least conceiveable. 
There seem to be people who use PCMCIA for an IDE interface, so swapping may 
become desireable in some cases.

I think Dan might be in the camp that says a properly designed embedded
system won't need to swap.  And when I hear about how people do try and
swap on systems like this, I really start agreeing.  Maybe we could make
8xx just select SWAP=n? :)

No! David is right. There are systems out in the field  running  with
IDE  harddisks attached (either through custom hardware interfaces or
through standard PCMCIA adapters), and some of  these  actually  need
and use swap space.

Please do not remove stuff that is needed and used to work (in 2.4).

Note the bug in question exists in 2.4, and I think really even 2.2.

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Tom Rini
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