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Date:   Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:47:56 +0200 (CEST)
From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] MIPS: Avoid DIVU in `__div64_32' is result would be
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2021, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:

> >  Hmm, what about changes known to actually break something then?  Like 
> > with R6 here?  Those will undoubtedly cause someone a headache with 
> > bisection sometime in the future.  Are you sure your policy is the best 
> > possible?
> 
> This is my Linus pull tree, so I'm following 
> 
> Documentation/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst

 Fair enough.

> >  Meanwhile I'll be able to give DECstation figures only.  I guess such 
> > limited results will suffice if I post the fix as an update rather than 
> > replacement.
> 
> thank you.

 I have requested 3/4 to be backported however, so I think in this case 
4/4 will have to follow as well as 2/2 of the fix series I have just 
posted.  Will you be able to resolve this somehow?

  Maciej