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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/5] swsusp: Fix handling of highmem
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:38:22 +0200
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Hi!

> > Comments welcome.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten half the reason why I didn't want to 
> make Suspend2 into incremental patches! You're a brave man!

Why does this serve as a reminder? No, it is not easy to merge big
patches to mainline. But it is actually a feature.

> while (1) {
>   size=$RANDOM * 65536 + 1
>   dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=$size | patch -p0-b
>   make && break
>}

Is this what you use to generate suspend2 patches? :-)))))

									Pavel
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