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Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:25:17 +0100 (CET)
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove 8 bytes from struct page on 64bit archs
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On 6 Jan 2002, Momchil Velikov wrote:

> They're pretty much independent of each other

Hardly. wli removes the zone ptr completely by encoding it into flags,
whilst anton makes it conditional. As it stands, they don't
play together.

> as a single large dropping^h^h^h^h is not the preferred way of
> submitting patches.

They both have the same (or similar) goal. Having them both go
off in different directions to achieve that goal is counterproductive
if the end result is the same.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

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