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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 14:01:33 +0100

> And that for shaving 6 bytes of a structure..

No, it's for not breaking existing userland binaries out there.  We
released 2.6.24 with the existing struct layout, we have to live with
it.