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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:43:52 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 09:36 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> > I'm picking up tip/master right now and will test your fix for this
> > shortly.
> 
> Okay, I've put it through its paces and everything appears to be 
> working well with Ingo's fix.

great, thanks for checking!

it has not caused any new problems in -tip testing either, and that 
means a couple of thousand test builds and test boots so far in the past 
week, so we've got the usual codepaths covered pretty well. With your 
test of the less common codepaths we should be pretty good in general.

	Ingo