[BusyBox] pre-commit feedback, please

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 29 July 2005 03:34, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Friday 29 July 2005 00:37, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>On Friday 29 July 2005 01:08 am, Rob Landley wrote:
> >>
> >>here's the situation as i understand (i may be wrong, i dont use uClinux
> >>
> >>:P): busybox is already full of __uClinux__ checks simply because fork is
> >>
> >>not support on that kernel ...
> >
> > And that's for historical reasons: I believe Erik used to work for them
> > and they sponsored uClibc and busybox development.  That hasn't been the
> > case for quite some time, and in _theory_ there's no reason for busybox
> > to have special cases for any of this stuff.  uClinux is _not_ the only
> > embedded Linux distro, it isn't even the most widely used one.  (Linksys
> > routers don't use it, and there's zillions of those.)
>
> Isn't the issue more about being able to support MMUless chips, rather
> than the uClinux distribtion ?

Yes.  In which case specifically checking for uClinux is the wrong thing to 
do.  There are still a number of __uClinux__ tests, and several uClibc && 
ARCH_HAS_MMU tests, and what we really _want_ to do is have a menuconfig 
entry so the user can tell the thing how to compile.

Rob