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On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Alex Chiang wrote:

> Any comments on this patch series?
> 
> Turns out that Kame-san's fear about a memory section spanning
> several nodes on certain architectures (S390) isn't really
> applicable and even if it were, we have code to handle situation
> anyway.
> 
> Kame-san was generally supportive of these convenience symlinks
> although he did not give a formal ACK.
> 
> David has given an ACK on the two patches that do real work, as
> well as supplied the below patch.
> 
> I can respin this series once more, including David's Acked-by:
> and adding his patch if that makes life easier for you.
> 

It's probably in Andrew's queue after getting back from the kernel summit, 
it would be best to wait a week or so.