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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:44:29 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 1 of 5
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:43:52PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> Here's the first patch.  This patch 'shrinks' struct kref by removing
> the release pointer in the struct kref.  GregKH has applied this to his tree

I applied a tweaked version of this.  It's now in the bk-drivers tree.

thanks,

greg k-h