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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 18:41:42 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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On 11/03, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> However. Please do not touch this code. It doesn't work anyway,
> I'll resend the patch which removes this crap.

This code continues to confuse developers. And this is the only
effect it has.

Once again. The patch removes the DEAD code. It is never called,
it can't work (from 2006) but this is not immediately clear.
Howver it often needs attention/changes because it _looks_ as if
it works.

Let's remove it, finally.

Oleg.