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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:10:13 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Luck, Tony wrote:
>  > 
>  > But I'm still confused by all the math on addr/end at each
>  > level.
> 
>  You think the rest of us are not ;-?

umm, given the difficulty which you guys are having with this, I get a bit
worried about clarity, simplicity and maintainability of the end result.