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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:55:07 +0930
From: Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@au1.ibm.com>
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:14:49 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> In fact, you might consider passing in a "copy_out" function pointer
> rather than that "copy_to" boolean, and rather than that conditional,
> just do a
> 
>   ret = copy_out(..);
> 
> thing. On sane/good architectures, branch target prediction will make
> it all work out to the same work in the end, and it certainly looks
> simpler and cleaner.

Thanks for all the feedback - I'll rework the patch...

Regards,

Chris
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