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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:08:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So I'd much rather see the XFS etc code moved away from bcopy() first,
> because that's the _real_ cleanup. The library code isn't all that ugly in
> comparison.

The lowlevel XFS code tries to stay in sync as much as possible with
the IRIX codebase to make maintaince easier (we're a very small team..).

It could be removed, but I don't think it would help..

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