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Subject: Re: [PATCH] shmem missing cache flush
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 16:21, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>    Date: 21 Oct 2002 16:04:17 +0100
>    
>    I disagree here. Its a measurable performance item, and its actually
>    going to break less code than for example the last minute scsi and bio
>    changes have done
>    
> That's a good point.
> 
> So, if you want to merge the deprecation to Linus when he returns
> I'd fully support it :-)

Fine by me. The m68k people can thank me for all the 5380 fixing I've
been doing instead. Send me the diffs Im happy to give them a spin.
Compared to a bit of vm work the rest of the stuff needed is way way
worse. I'd hate to be fixing the atari st ide support in 2.5 8) although
I do want to see suspend to disk on an amiga


Alan

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