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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 19:40:11 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
       "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module alias and table support
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:14:29PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> Hopefully this is back together: the device-table-to-aliases stuff is
> a separate step which can be argued on its own, and I think will
> probably have to wait for 2.7 unless Greg is going to champion it.
> 
> The real win is simplicity and independence from the kernel
> datastructures (which probably won't change during 2.6 anyway).

Which, imho, is worth championing!  :)

I'm going to be in Austin next week, and I'll have some free time in the
evenings, so I'll try to take a look at your previous patch and see if I
can change it a bit to resolve the minor problems I had with it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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