Re: + fix-spellings-of-slab-allocator-section-in-init-kconfig.patch added to -mm tree

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From: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 18:57:04 -0700 (PDT)

> On Tue, 8 May 2007, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > I'm just reading over the code to figure out what to type to you, you
> > could read the code too it's not very complicated :-)
> 
> I have read it numerous times and my conclusion is that it uses the 
> descriptors for that purpose. But Matt claims they are not necessary. So I 
> am just trying to figure out how one can get to that conclusion.

He is saying the metadata is not necessary for allocated objects.
At least that's my take.
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