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On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:55:12AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well there are two reasons for discouraging cleanups.  The first is of
> course that they can destabilise things.  But the other is that we want as
> many developers as possible (Hi, Jesse) concentrating on stabilisation.

Well, in this case we're talking about merging already existing patches..