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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> > > As per the top of this file, this should not be needed here as you are
> > > only using it in one file.  Please leave it as-is.
> > 
> >  I find this requirement silly, but here it's not the place to discuss it, 
> 
> You have not had to deal with merge issues in this file before.  Think
> about every single PCI driver author updating this single file.  That
> just does not work at the scale we run at, sorry.  I put this rule into
> place 15+ years ago for that reason.

 Fair enough, I missed this practical aspect.  Thanks for straightening me 
out.

  Maciej