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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/33] x86: enable FRED for x86-64
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To:     Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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So I feel obliged to throw in some defending of Xin here, mostly because 
in some of these cases I'm the perkeleen vittupää[1] and not Xin.

The other thing is that this patchset is from April and predates the 
recent FRED changes (which were unanticipated at the time); I explicitly 
asked Xin to hold off making updates until the spec had restabilized.

	-hpa

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/13/132