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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:14:48 +0100 (CET)
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: James A Sutherland <james@sutherland.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] unchecked request_region's in drivers/net
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, James A Sutherland wrote:

> In the way I'm suggesting, it just simplifies matters a little: rather than
> having to list RG and AV separately for every single file in devfs, just say
> "this new file is part of devfs" and it "inherits" them that way.

gotcha, sounds ok to me, still quite a bit of work to build the database
needed for this, but as several others have pointed out, this would save
so much time for anyone who sends out lots of patches.

Dave.

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