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Subject: Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd)
To: jfbeam@bluetronic.net (Ricky Beam)
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> And I'm sure many of his patches would be accepted if he sent them in the
> method prescribed by Linus (loudly and on multiple occasions.)  That is,

Loudly  - check. Believe me Andre is -LOUD-

> ONE patch to fix or support *ONE* thing. (Translation: minimize the amount
> of stuff you screw up with your patch.) The "megapatch" is deleted on sight.

I really don't think you can split that IDE stuff. I worked over some of
that with Andre for the -ac merge, and you just can't split it. Instead it
does the next best thing - you can run some code paths with the old or new
style
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