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2008/11/18 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>:
> it's your call really, either way is fine as long as the end result
> works! :-)
>
> Generally it's indeed much easier to do as small steps as possible,
> and to validate every step in practice.
>
>        Ingo
>


That's right, I will start with a static array first and end with
dynamic allocation.
I'm not sure if it will be ready for merge window of 2.6.29 but that
doesn't really matter.


> hey, look at the bright side of it: whichever variant you pick, if it
> goes wrong, you'll always have someone else to blame for that
> unbelievably stupid suggestion ;-)
>
>        Ingo
>

Hehe! Indeed :-)