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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.21 IDE 91
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:56:34AM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

 > Add my voice to these concerns.  At the very least the code should have 
 > been moved into a second tree to allow people to work with the old stable 
 > driver as needed.

*nod*, with periodic known-good _tested_ bits getting merged to
mainline, to avoid the need for an IDE merge flag day as has been
the norm in the past.

        Dave
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