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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 06:50:04 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/7] switch dereference_function_descriptor() to `unsigned long'
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To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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On (10/04/17 10:24), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> To make it clear. All these comments are not a big deal and I do
> not want to invalidate all the acked-by and tested-by just because
> of them.
>
> But please, consider removing this change if we need to do
> another iteration of this patchset. IMHO, there is no real win
> and it would just pollute the git history.

I tend to rather keep it. would that cause any problems on your side?
it saves a ton of ugly casts later in the patch set and lets us to drop
some casts from the modules code/etc. the patch is here because otherwise
I had to add a bunch of new casts.

	-ss