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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:08:54 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > > Or you could just not bother, and leave everything as u64.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> To eliminate needless complexity and keep things simple and obvious?

Considering the amount of complexity we add for the high end, why is it 
suddenly a bad thing to add even a _little_ complexity for the other end?

bye, Roman