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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:50:15 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support
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> You're being silly.  Either that or you're not reading what I write. 
> You know perfectly well iBCS2 compatibility doesn't work (anymore.)  The
> question, in my mind, is will it ever be made to work again?  I think
> the answer should be yes.

We await your patches. If you think it should be done then rework the
code, test it and figure how to merge it nicely.

Alan