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Hi Alex,

"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>>> Ok, please give me an example with real numbers and why it breaks.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://mid.gmane.org/1376995766-16526-4-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Didn't quiet get what you are looking for. As explained before, we now
>>> need to pass an array with array size 3 even though we know we need to
>>> read only 2 entries because kernel doesn't loop correctly.
>>
>> But we need to do that regardless, because newer QEMU needs to be able to run on older kernels, no?
>>
>
> yes. So use space will have to pass an array of size 3. But that should
> not prevent us from fixing this right ?
>

Do we still want this patch or should I drop this ?

-aneesh