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>>>>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:42:22 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:

  DaveM> I totally beg to
  DaveM> differ, and I think people like Linus will too.

I don't think so.  In the not-so-distant past, Linus has rejected a
patch for precisely this reason.  And in that particular case, only a
handful of places had a local variable replaced with current->cpu.

	--david
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