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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> I have yet to test a current kernel version with this patch reverted
> because I am too sleepy right now to solve the conflicts.

That wouldn't actually be a useful test if you did as the locking changes
would then bite you. The patch in question should just be a locking
change so short of compiler bugs ought to be fairly easy to audit. I will
dig into it next week.

Alan