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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/29] gma500: Ensure the frame buffer has a linear
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On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 23:02 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Really though this sort of treewide trivial has to stop, its costing tons
> of time and delays in real work. It should all be going via maintainers
> of subsystems but clearly Jiri is letting stuff through that isn't
> trivial but is in fact nuisance.

Because standardizing APIs is too hard?

Another option is for you to develop with -next.