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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 10:51:12 -0600
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On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:39:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Hmm?
> > 
> > So that find_conflict doesn't end up in the first column, which causes
> > diff to treat it as a function name for the purposes of the @@ lines.
> 
> Please can we just fix the tools not mangle the kernel to work around
> silly bugs ?

The people who control the tools refuse to fix them.

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