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Subject: Re: Industrial device driver uio/uio_*
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On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 12:18 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:59:54 +0100
> > I would just NAK it but want to be sure the guys saw the list of
> > problems
> > 
> 
> cc's added.
> 
> Thomas has been a bit tied up with timers and interrupts of late.

Yup. fork(tglx) still returns -ETOOMANYINSTANCES.

I have no objections, if you pull it from -mm for now. The list of flaws
is accepted and we'll work on this in foreseeable time, _IF_ there is
some basic consensus about the idea itself not being fundamentaly wrong.

	tglx