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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:01:16 -0500
From: "Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  What about pushing the fb_defio fixes independently of any new
>  fb_defio users?  If fb_defio was worth merging into Linus's tree, it
>  should be worth fixing there, whether new users are in shape already
>  or not.

I think that Andrew's message is saying that there may be a race
condition in the defio patch itself as opposed to the defio user
patch.

If there is no race condition or other problems, then I think it would
make sense to merge the defio patch independent of metronomefb or
other new patches that use defio.

Thanks,
jaya
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