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To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2 
From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 May 2008 14:03:01 +1000."
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Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> I haven't been following this too closely, so how much of this stuff has
> been posted/review/tested?

This is the second posting (some of the changesets are new this time
around).  It all builds and runs for me, but a lot of this work affects
some of the oldest, most cobweb-filled code around, and I sure don't
have that hardware.  Some others have looked at, but I'm not sure how
deeply.

The basic concept of this work is straightforward, so I have good reason
to hope I've not done anything really stupid.

jon