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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:34:05 +0000 (GMT)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5] speedup kallsyms_lookup
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> At some point in the past, I wrote:
> >> So the end-result of the discussion is, "What should really happen here?"
> >> and "What, if anything, do you want me to do?"
> 
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:12:12PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > IMHO best would be to get rid of /proc/*/wchan and keep the kallsyms 
> > lookup slow, simple and stupid.
> 
> Slow, simple, and stupid == "wli, get the Hell out". I'm gone.

Indeed!  I think that was Andi volunteering :-}
But we should let rml defend his wchan.

Hugh

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