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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: Remove unnecessary kmalloc() cast
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 12:33:57AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dang, yes, that was a regrettable change.  But hardly the end of the
> world.  I do think each such alteration should have included a comment
> to prevent people from going and cleaning them up.

.. or we should have never merged that utter mess ..