Re: CVS Update@-mips.org: linux

[Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 ralf@linux-mips.org wrote:
> 
> 
>>Log message:
>>	Undo change from rev 1.37; some userspace software is expecting
>>	PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHIFT and PAGE_MASK to be accessible through
>>	<asm/page.h>.  Sigh ...
> 
> 
>  Fix that software then, instead of breaking good one (hint -- what is the
> "right" value of PAGE_SHIFT and why it doesn't work for that system over
> there?).  With these macros exported it's hard to guess whether the page
> size can be hardcoded or it should get determined at the run time.  And 
> with glibc you get a compilation error due to PAGE_SHIFT being undefined.  
> Please revert the braindamage.
> 
>  What software is the offender, BTW?
> 
>   Maciej

procps is probably the trigger of this.  Me and some other Gentoo/MIPS 
devs/users got into a bit of a heated discussion w/ the procps 
maintainer, who didn't quite like the fact that A) We don't use 
"sanitized" kernel headers B) PAGE_SIZE was hidden on MIPS and C) 
"properly sanitized" headers would provide PAGE_SIZE.  We opted instead 
for a patch to procps that used sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) to fetch the 
value, and I guess this just didn't rub the right way w/ the maintainer. 
  Got me.

I can post the discussions for those interested (or just looking for 
amusement), and anyone curious enough can look at proc/procps.h in the 
procps tree for a rather amusing (IMHO) comment on MIPS at the top of 
the source.


--Kumba

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