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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] padata: section cleanup
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:38:45 +0800 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 06:04:45PM -0400, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > I can find it once, in December 2009, in the middle of a massive thread
> > called "workqueue thing".  It had no replies.
> 
> OK you're right.  It's only been posted to lkml once.  However,
> this has been discussed on netdev since 2008 at least.  The patch
> in its current form has also been acked by David Miller.
> 

Thing is, this isn't net code and it isn't crypto code - it's a
kernel-wide utility.  Everyone needs to know at least a bit about it
and code-reviewers such as myself need to know a lot about it, so we
can tell people "hey dummy, shouldn't you use padata".

So please, can we belatedly go through the process of educating the
developers about this thing you guys have written for us?