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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Daniel Schnell
<daniel.schnell@marel.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Continuing the discussion on the mailing list ...
>
> Looking at the original patch I don't undestand why you had to duplicate
> the bestcomm data structures and functions. The only apparent difference
> is that you have a minimal data length of 2 bytes instead of 1. Does
> this make any difference as the bd_size will be filled with the correct
> length value anyway ?

The "new" version of the patch does this the correct way. I just
haven't back ported this to the 2.6.24 version that I sent you.

Tim