How about taking my original patch, sent August 12th instead? That has
a good changelog and proper attribution. The removal of the
unnecessary casts can be a separate message.
If you weren't cc'd on the patch (Jeff was), you can pick it up from
netdev.
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Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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