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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:03:45 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [8/11] SYSCTL: Convert hotplug helper string to
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:20:29AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> This avoids races with lockless sysctl.
> 
> I also moved the code into a separate function because the original
> was very long.
> 
> Cc: greg@kroah.com
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>