Bug#372552: swapd: README.Debian needs updating since MAX_SWAPFILES is declared differently now in swap.h

[Arias Hung]

Package: swapd
Version: 0.2-10
Severity: normal

README.Debian needs updating as step #4 ambiguously states as follows:

4. In include/linux/swap.h under Linux source directory change the value
   of MAX_SWAPFILES from 8 to 256. This defines how many swaps you will be
   able to have.

Yet grepping for MAX_SWAPFILES in include/linux/swap.h produces the following:

# grep MAX_SWAPFILES /usr/src/linux/include/linux/swap.h

 * MAX_SWAPFILES defines the maximum number of swaptypes: things which can
#define MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT     5
#define MAX_SWAPFILES           (1 << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT)



with value set to 5..


Please clarify how the MAX_SWAPFILES/MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT variables are to be 
manipulated
in swap.h so this package can be utilized.

Thank you.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: by Linux-Systeme
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-beyond4
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages swapd depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries

swapd recommends no packages.

The MAX_SWAPFILES declaration as the value (1 << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT) has been declared as such for quite some time now. At least, the last four major kernel versions have it stated as such and included the MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT variable

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