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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:57:15 +0100

> I obviously can't just merge in net-next.

People do this all the time, when needed.  My history never changes,
and the networking tree is one of the first trees pulled into
linux-next, so this is always safe.