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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Sun, 27 Mar 2022 10:53:42 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: move lower_48_bits() to block
To:     Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
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        Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
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On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 10:33 AM <kbusch@kernel.org> wrote:
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> The function is not generally applicable enough to be included in the core
> kernel header. Move it to block since it's the only subsystem using it.

Thanks.

Btw - replying on the list too, because at least last time you were on
the participants list, I got bounces about "mailbox too large".

WTH? Are you living in some hut in the wilderness in the good old
nineties using AOL for email?

Because admittedly the 21st century has been all that great so far,
but at least we got rid of mailbox limits.

               Linus