From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] netif: staging grants for requests
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 20:27:07 +0000
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