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On 01/01/2014 11:33 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Ack. Looks good to me. I've wanted this for a long time for other
> reasons, we should finally just do it.
> 

Yes, we keep avoiding doing this by layering hack upon hack, but
really... it needs to be done.

The chief objection I've heard is that it makes "make oldconfig"
necessary after a compiler change, but that seems entirely reasonable.

	-hpa