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On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 02:46:47PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Yeah. I'm keen on being able to use something like alternatives to
> *change* 'usualfunction' at runtime though. I suspect it'll be a win
> for stuff like dma_ops.

That shouldn't be too hard to implement.