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Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:01:48 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Cc:     ooo@...ctrozaur.com,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libosd: Remove ignored __weak attribute

On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 10:54 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> If creating one instance of this variable is a functional change, I
> can't help but suspect the original code was wrong.  But maybe Bart,
> Boaz, or Christoph can clarify or have more thoughts on this?  Looks
> like Boaz added this header in commit de258bf5e638 ("[SCSI] libosd:
> OSDv1 Headers").

Hi Nick and Nathan,

Had you noticed the following e-mail from early October:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=153849955503249?

Thanks,

Bart.