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Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 13:42:03 +1000
From: Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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People,


On 2022-04-23 06:44, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 5:53 AM Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, Linus, these changes are not the refactoring you were talking
>> about, but I plan to try to do such a refactoring in the my next
>> patchset.
> 
> Heh. Ok, I'm not saying these patches are pretty, and looking up the
> namespace thing is a bit subtle, but it's certainly prettier than the
> existing odd "create a new ctl_table entry because of field abuse".
> 
> So this certainly looks like an improvement from a quick look.
> 
>               Linus


Thanks for that little glimpse into what happens with kernel development 
- interesting!

Phil.
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