Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:18:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
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       Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
       npiggin@suse.de, Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 13] Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Rusty Russell wrote:

> 	Thanks for the pointers, but as you've been debating for 18 months now,
> no patches are in the -mm tree or obviously about to go in, and this new
> helper function is orthogonal to your work, I don't think it's
> reasonable to delay this patch.

I have not been involved in this issue for a long time now.
You need to contact the people actively working on code like this. 
Most important is likely Ian Wienand. 

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