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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [3.16 stable PATCH 1/1] virtio-rng: fix multi-device startup
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 06:11:47PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> This is a 3.16-only patch.  The linux.git fix is
> 5c06273401f2eb7b290cadbae18ee00f8f65e893, which fixes this issue in a
> different way.

Why "different"?  Why can't I take that original patch instead?  What is
different in this patch, and why?

thanks,

greg k-h