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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
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On (08/06/15 09:24), Julia Lawall wrote:
> > >
> > > Please provide the appropriate context next time. And for the moment, I will
> > > not apply this, because this does not work on the current MTD development tree.
> > > Try your patch bomb on the next release, as it's not worth my time to
> > > cross-merge a -next branch just for a "cleanup".
> > >
> >
> > Julia already has a patch set to cleanup all the existing users
> > (not published yet, though).
> 
> We should probably have put our patches into a series.  Because it is true
> that the cleanup patch breaks existing code.  So one has to be aware of
> the dependency between them.
> 

I guess we can wait until 3 patches in question will land in Linus's
tree. What do you think?

	-ss