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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:39:24 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:35:02 +0100 Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 02:31:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > The hardware is weird, but we should try to support it in some fashion.
> 
> Why?  It's been around since 2005, and Linux has done perfectly well
> without support for it. 

Oh.  I was assuming it was some new thing.  This does weaken the case
a lot.