Re: BUG in videodev.c [PATCH]

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 11:02:00 -0800 (PST)

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On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Never mind, the patch looks fine (except
> all the confusion has just convinced me that I should do this in the mm
> layer so that it can never happen again, and so that drivers don't even
> have to care).

Done. Adding it in one place allowed me to remove it in 17 other places
(and then not apply the videodev.c patch because now it is no longer
needed).

One less cause of hard-to-find bugs killed,

Linus

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