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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
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Jens Axboe wrote:
> Both 2.4 and 2.5 have same two bugs:
> 1)  lo->lo_pending never decremented in remap case
> 2)  remapping _never_ enabled (and this caused it to appear to work)

Jens Axboe wrote:
>> That said, please do split up the patches as Andrew/wli suggested. For
>> the 2.5 one I'd be inclined to just take it as-is, but the 2.4 patch
>> definitely needs to be split.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 06:31:36PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> OK. Since 2.5.25 patch still applies to 2.5.26 with one 3-line offset, I
> won't send new one but comment the patch.

Isn't it more usual to send the individual bugfixes/whatever as entirely
separate patches? (I admit, this did explain quite a bit, though.)


Cheers,
Bill
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