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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:47:04 +0300
From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@networx.ch>
Subject: Re: A small cleanup patch
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:15:00AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> On 18.10.2012 19:00, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:09:33PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> >> On 05.10.2012 01:21, Vijay Singh wrote:
> >>> Folks, I came up with this while going through the lltable code.
> >>
> >> Thank you. I just purged a larger number of stray spl* from the
> >> net*/* directories. This stuff won't be backported to 9-STABLE
> >> though.
> >
> > Why ? What is the value of having the fossils in the actively maintained
> > stable tree ?
>=20
> To avoid churn within a stable release track.

IMO, this is wrong argument. The artificial difference, esp. due to the
nop and garbage, makes both code reading and MFC harder.

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