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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:40:10 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] A start at large file and filesystem support
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>>>>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:26:21 +1000, Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> said:

>>>>> "David" = David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> writes:

  David> Not sure how others feel about this, but I for one still like
  David> to get diff -u-style patches.  It's just so much faster to
  David> get a quick idea of what the patch does.

  Peter> That's why I provided both -- but 1.8M of diffs is a bit much
  Peter> for an email.  (I had to change the definition of a couple of
  Peter> interface functions, which meant lots of files have two line
  Peter> changes)

But you said the patch included all the ia64 changes as well:

  (which also includes the changes David Mosberger put up as the diffs
  from 2.5.8)

This makes the patch fairly useless from the point of view of seeing
what you changed. ;-)

	--david