Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:23:11 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20080108.232311.79648776.davem@davemloft.net>
To: hch@lst.de
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       ak@suse.de, pq@iki.fi, jbeulich@novell.com, mingo@elte.hu,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86: optimize page faults like all other
 achitectures and kill notifier cruft"
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:19:45 +0100

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:55:20AM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > now because Linus said send him a patch to revert regressions rather than 
> > just complain,
> 
> this is not a regression by any definition.  You were abusing exported
> symbols for out of tree junk, so you'll lose.

And furthermore, they don't even need it, use a kprobe.
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