From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.9] livepatch: Declare live patching as
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:17:38 +0100
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