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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/30] compat: Use COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME in the lp driver
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:59:12 -0800
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On 02/19/2012 04:56 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
>>
>> Enable the lp driver to be used with a compat ABI with 64-bit time.
> 
> Ugh. Is this really the only case?
> 

No, it's not the only case, and a helper function is a great idea.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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