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To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 14:29 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Once we exposed it to userspace, we cannot simply assume
> that nothing is using it.

Yes, we can.

No guarantees are made about dmesg output.

If guarantees were made, no typo could ever be fixed
nor could any conversion from printk to dev_<level>
be done.

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