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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:28:51 -0700
From: Greg K H <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] edac: change the mem allocation scheme to make
 Documentation/kobject.txt happy
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:21:30AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Kernel kobjects have rigid rules: each container object should be
> dynamically allocated, and can't be allocated into a single kmalloc.
> 
> EDAC never obeyed this rule: it has a single malloc function that
> allocates all needed data into a single kzalloc.
> 
> As this is not accepted anymore, change the allocation schema of the
> EDAC *_info structs to enforce this Kernel standard.

Very nice work, thanks for doing this:
	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>