Re: [PATCH] kill leftover WANT_FUNCS macro indirection

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Subject:	Re: [PATCH] kill leftover WANT_FUNCS macro indirection
From:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Sun, 6 Aug 2006 11:45:45 +0200
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Am Montag 31 Juli 2006 00:54 schrieb Nathan Scott:

> Right, its more that we don't have a great track record at the moment
> of not introducing regressions with these cleanups (including myself),
> so I'm becoming more reluctant to do sweeping changes across the whole
> codebase.  Smaller, specific, and obviously-correct things are less
> likely to introduce issues, so if we can achieve basically the same
> thing while churning the code less, I'm all for it.

Hello Nathan,

I fully agree with that - especially as XFS is a file system and 
regressions can easily have desastrous results.

Regards,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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