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On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> > The "sometimes we have kmalloced buffers" locations need to be fixed.
> 
> I've said enough, I'd better leave it to others to deter you or not
> from fiddling around pointlessly here.

Are there any locations left after the two fixes to pa-risc and arm?

If the ARM fix solves the issue then we may not need that special casing 
anymore. Maybe the sometimes has become never?



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