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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
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Hi David,

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Adding the pages to the page cache on read_inode() is fairly
> simple. Hacking the kernel so that readpage() can provide its own
> page less so.

But would make mm/shmem.c much simpler while adding functionality.

Greetings
		Christoph


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