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On 07/15/2011 03:19 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Still, splitting it into two patches (in which the bugfix is staged
> first) would be advantageous for people who might wish to backport the
> fix into earlier kernels.
>

Okay -- I'll submit two smaller patches and I'll early next week.

-ayan