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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke


On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> Yes, that should work. It's still ugly, and I have to say I find the
> complexity rather distasteful. I am willing to be convinced it's worth it,
> but I would really like to see hard numbers.

I really cannot imagine that this kind of pain is *ever* worth it.

Please give an example of something so important that we'd want to do
complex code rewriting on the fly. What _is_ the point of imv_cond()?

Linus


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