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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:48:44 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -v4 00/08] use lmb with x86
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* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:

> new early_res is lmb extension. and it could be used to replace bootmem.

Why not do what we suggested: extend lmb.c to also offer the 
early_res-equivalent functionality, and remove kernel/early_res.c and move 
lib/lmb.c to mm/lmb.c?

We dont want two facilities (early_res and lmb) really ...

	Ingo