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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:40:59 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6 v5] Kernel DLPAR Infrastructure
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
> I saw that Grant Likely is doing updates to all of the of_* stuff right now,
> would it be ok to have these routines here, renamed as dlpar_*, and look
> to merge them in with Grant's updates when he finishes?

No because then we're stuck with renaming the API at a later date.
Name it what it is, and put it where it belongs.  I'll deal with any
merge breakage as it occurs.

g.