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Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 15:34:25 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 02:43:56PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 4) The revert is easy, and the functionality the original patch provided
>    was a marginal increase in debug output to begin with...

I agree that a revert is probably the right thing to do here, but the 
original patch was there to permit a more accurate calculation of the 
amount of nvram in use, not to provide additional debug information. 
Reverting it is going to differently break a different set of systems

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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