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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 14:43:45 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
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On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 21:33:00 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> wrote:

> >
> > >  51 files changed, 3914 insertions(+), 2453 deletions(-)
> >
> > eep.  The best time for me to merge this is late in the -rc cycle so
> > the large skew between mainline and mm.git doesn't spend months
> > hampering ongoing development.  But that merge time is right now.
> 
> Argh. Well, the numbers are scary, but it's _mostly_ moving code around
> with some pretty straightforward refactorings and adding a bunch of
> userland code that won't impact kernels at all.
> 
> So I'd argue this is less crazy in size than it might seem...

OK, let's leave it a couple of days for some feedback then decide. 
It's still a couple of weeks until we go upstream.