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Date:	Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:11:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...r.kernel.org, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com,
	corey.d.gough@...el.com, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Erik Andersen <andersen@...epoet.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> It is reasonable to expect some help from maintainers, but I notice you
> didn't even CC the SLOB maintainer in the patch to remove SLOB! So maybe
> if you tried working a bit closer with him you could get better results?

The maintainers last patch to SLOB was the initial submission of the 
allocator. Then he acked subsequent patches. Most of the modifications to 
SLOB are my work. Attempts to talk to the maintainer result in inventive 
explanations why SLOB does not have to conform to kernel standards. There 
is no reasonable expectation that this will change.
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