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Russell King wrote:

>Gah, I _really_ wish that we had a method to notify architecture maintainers
>when this type of stuff changes.  Are we supposed to re-read the x86
>implementation of everything for each kernel release to try to discover
>what subtle semantics have changed?
>
>  
>
There was no change - i386 just permits something that doesn't work on 
all archs.



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