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To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch 4/9] lguest: the asm offsets
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:49:32 +0200
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From: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
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* Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:09:39 +1000
>
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 22:46 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:51:36AM -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
>> > From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>> > 
>> > This is the structure offsets required by lg.ko's switcher.S.
>> > 
>> > Unfortunately we don't have infrastructure for private asm-offsets
>> > creation.
>> Someone maybe it was Oleg? did an OK job to abstract out asm-offset
>> generation. I asked to have it rebased but never heard anything back.
>> 
>> I would like to get this generic approach in and then let lguest use it.
>> But I do not see this as a reason to hold back inclusion in -linus.
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> 	Yeah, I never heard back either.  And I'm reluctant to try to fix it
> myself: I've never managed to patch the build system without causing you
> to rewrite it better 8)

If it's still open, i can try, after getting back from RL and 28k LKML
backlog ;)
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