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From: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Interface to invalidate regions of mmaps
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:57:36 -0700
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> In 2.5, page->buffers was abstracted out to page->private, and is available
> to filesystems for functions such as this.

that's great news!

> When you finally decide to do your development in a development kernel ;)

customers seem to have the strangest aversion to  development kernels :)

but, yeah, I should be doing 2.5 work soon and will holler if
simplifications make themselves apparent.

- z