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Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 07:39:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] DMI cleanup patches
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On Thu, 6 May 2004, Andrey Panin wrote:
> 
> currently arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c file looks like complete
> mess. Interfacing with other kernel subsystem made using
> ad-hoc ways, mostly with ugly global variables, additionaly
> coding style is ... not good. So these patches appear:

The patches look good by me, but I'd rather leave them to after 2.6.6, 
since they seem to be cleanups rather than serious bug-fixes.

Andrew?

		Linus