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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:00:11 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: William D Waddington <william.waddington@beezmo.com>
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> Thanks for the thoughtful reply.  _And_ for taking the time to look at
> the code.
> 
> I guess my half-assed notion is to have a single file w/"#ifdef-able"
> entries that flag API changes.  It at least would give me/us a single
> point of reference, and avoid the rather ugly version checking.  "LDDx"
> is fine, and lwn.net has saved my ass more times than I can count, but a
> single peg on which to hang my out-of-tree hat would seem useful.

Or you could hang your hat in tree ?

Alan