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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:39:59 +0100
From: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
To: "Naveen N . Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 09:53:16PM +0530, Naveen N . Rao wrote:
> On 2017/10/31 03:30PM, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe I failed to express my views properly; I find the whole approach
[...]
> > NAK'd-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
> 
> Hmm... that wasn't evident at all given Balbir's reponse to your 
> previous concerns and your lack of response for the same:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg125350.html

To me it was obvious that the root cause was kpatch's current inability to
deal with ppc calling conventions when copying binary functions. Hence my
hint at the discussion about a possible source-level solution that would
work nicely for all architectures.

	Torsten