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On 09/15/2017 07:24 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 06:52:48PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> As always, the devil is in the detail.
> 
> Ok, actually we can make this much simpler by using a static key. A
> conceptual patch below - I only need to fix that crazy include hell I'm
> stepping into with this.
> 
> In any case, we were talking about having a static branch already so
> this fits the whole strategy.
> 

thanks for the suggestion Boris, it will make patch much simpler.
I will try this out.

-Brijesh