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From: wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman)
Subject: Re: (patch-2.4.6) Fix oops with Iomega Clik! (ide-floppy)
Date: 14 Jul 2001 20:12:35 +0200
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In article <3B5083AE.71515696@mandrakesoft.com>,
Jeff Garzik  <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>IMHO we have made an exception for glibc for long enough...

glibc and strace, which is already having a truely horrible time trying
to get the right data from the kernel includes. There is some
functionality deliberately missing from strace since the only way
to implement it would have been to copy things from the kernel includes
into the source which just adds extra maintenance nightmares.

Wichert.

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